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Edward Ball is an American writer and historian. He is best known for his book Slaves in the Family, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1998. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, and graduated from Yale University in 1981. He has written several books, including The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA, and The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures. He is currently a professor at the University of Virginia. As of 2021, Edward Ball's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned his wealth from his successful career as a writer and historian. He has written several books and has also been a professor at the University of Virginia.

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Occupation Writer
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 8 October 1959
Birthday 8 October
Birthplace Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2020

Life of a Klansman, forthcoming in spring 2020 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, tells the story of a foot soldier in the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana during Reconstruction, after the Civil War, examining the life of one man who involves himself in violent white supremacy.

1990

In the 1990s, he began to research his father's family, which had enslaved some 4000 people on twenty-five rice plantations in South Carolina. The Ball family story led to his first book, Slaves in the Family, a bestseller that won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Ball set aside journalism and continued to write nonfiction books.

1960

Ball's other books include a biography of Dawn Langley Simmons, a trans woman who aroused bigotry and fascination during the 1960s, and a history of a prosperous black family in the Jim Crow South, the Harlestons of South Carolina.

1959

Edward Ball (born October 8, 1959) is an American writer and the author of six books of non-fiction, including Slaves in the Family (1998), The Inventor and the Tycoon (2013), and Life of a Klansman (forthcoming 2020).

He was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1959 and grew up in the South. He attended Brown University, graduating in 1982.

1870

Set during the 1870s,The Inventor and the Tycoon tells the story of the partnership between California railroad magnate Leland Stanford and landscape photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who documented Yosemite Valley, committed a murder, and went on to create the first moving pictures, leading to the invention of cinema.