1. Augusta Wilson's books were banned by the American Library Association in 1881.
10 Facts About Augusta Wilson
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Augusta Wilson Jane Evans was born on May 8,1835, in Columbus, Georgia, the eldest child of the family.
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Augusta Wilson's father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s.
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Augusta Wilson moved his family of ten from Georgia to Alabama, and Augusta was ten when they moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845.
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Augusta Wilson presented the manuscript to her father as a Christmas gift in 1854.
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Augusta Wilson wrote her next novel, Beulah, at age 18; it was published in 1859.
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Augusta Wilson's books were banned by the American Library Association in 1881: "by reason of sensation or immoral qualities".
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Augusta Wilson died of a heart attack in Mobile on May 9,1909, and is buried in Mobile's Magnolia Cemetery.
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Augusta Wilson's beloved Ashland burned to the ground in 1926.
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Augusta Wilson was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1977 and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8,2015.