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A photo from historian Dr. Stephen Ambrose?s last public appearance, a reading of his works at Da Beach House in Bay St. Louis.
The famed historian, in his own words
Editor?s note: The following biography of Dr. Stephen Ambrose was written by the historian himself, and is excerpted from his website, stephenam-	.
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?(N)ever try to write about a
BY DR. STEPHEN battle until you have walked
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I was born in	about	|
1936 and grew up in mind til Whitewater,	jo j{- y(
Wisconsin, a small	i y
town where my	?
father was the M.D.	P^ss,
My high school had	explain, I
only 300 students but was good
enough to offer two years of Latin, which taught me the centrality of verbs -- placement, form, tense.
At the University
the ground; when you write about politicians, keep in mind that somebody has to do it; you are a story-teller, not God, so your job is not to pass judgments but to explain, illustrate, inform and entertain.'
Wisconsin, I started as a pre-
med, but after a course on
American history with William
B. Hesseltine, I switched my
major. He was a
great teacher of
write about a writing, with firm
i have walked rules such as
iphvoii write abandon chronolo-ien you write ^ at your peril;
ans, keep in use the active ebodyhasto voice;	avoid
a ctnrv-teller adverbs whenever
lri?b is nott?? with adj'ectives^as Hits but to they are but the te, inform and salt and pepper for bin ?	the meat (nouns).
On to L. S. U. , where I studied for my M.A. under T. Harry Williams
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