William Black (November 13, 1841 - December 10, 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland to Mr. and Mrs. James Black. He was educated with a view to being a landscape painter, a training that clearly influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptions of landscapes and seascapes in novels such as "White Wings: A Yachting Romance" (1880). At the age of twenty-three he went to London, … Wikipedia
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