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10 Facts About Charlton Ogburn

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Charlton Ogburn wrote over a dozen books and numerous magazine articles.

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Charlton Ogburn was raised in Savannah and New York City, graduated from Harvard University in 1932 and wrote and worked in publishing.

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Charlton Ogburn returned to the US to begin a career with the State Department.

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Charlton Ogburn went on to work at the Department of State.

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Charlton Ogburn held several posts, including Political Advisor to the United States Delegation to the United Nations Security Council's Committee of Good Offices for the Indonesian Dispute.

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Charlton Ogburn's papers are kept in archives at Emory University in Atlanta.

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Charlton Ogburn won the John Burroughs Medal in 1967 for The Winter Beach.

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Charlton Ogburn began his literary career with "The White Falcon", a story published by Houghton Mifflin in 1955.

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Charlton Ogburn's short novel The Bridge was a work of young adult fiction with illustrations by Evaline Ness.

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Today Charlton Ogburn is best known for several books and articles on the Shakespeare authorship question, continuing the passion of his parents, who had written several books on the topic including This Star of England: "William Shakes-speare" Man of the Renaissance.