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| Birthday |
22nd June, 1903
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| Birthplace |
Calhoun, now Clemson, South Carolina
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| Died |
22nd February, 1943
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| Place of Death |
Lisbon, Portugal
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| Buried |
West View Cemetery, also known as Liberty Cemetery, Liberty, South Carolina
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Journalist, author, war correspondent
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| Occupation |
Journalist
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Benjamin Franklin Robertson Jr., better known as Ben Robertson (1903–1943), was an American author, journalist and World War II war correspondent. He is best known for his renowned Southern memoir Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory, first published in 1942 and still in print. A native of Clemson, South Carolina, a horticulture graduate of Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, class of 1923, and writer for The Tiger, the college student newspaper. He was an honorary member of Gamma Alpha Mu local writers fraternity. He died in 1943 in a plane crash in Portugal. The SS Ben Robertson, launched in Savannah, Georgia in 1944, was named for him.
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