Charles Morrow Wilson Papers

Charles M. Wilson, son of Joseph Dickson and Mattie Maud (Morrow) Wilson, was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 16, 1905. He received his B.A. from the University of Arkansas in 1926, married Martha Lois Starr in 1939, and had three children: Morrow, James, and Joseph. Wilson was associate editor of the monthly magazine All’s Well in Fayetteville, 1926-1927, worked as a special reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1927-1928, and for the New York Times, 1930-1933. He did free lance work for Atlantic Monthly, Commonwealth, Scribner’s, Harper’s, Saturday Evening Post, Vermont Life, and other magazines. He was a foreign correspondent and tropical agriculturist in Latin America and Africa, a motion picture consultant, and a member of the board of directors of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine.

Wilson is the author of many well received juvenile, farming, historical, travel, and general interest books such as: The Roots of America (1936), Aroostook: Our Last Frontier (1937), One Half of the People (1949), and The Great Turkey Drive (1964).