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Gilbert Morris

1929–2016

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Gilbert Morris (1929–2016) was an American author, Baptist minister and English professor who became one of the most prolific writers of Christian historical fiction. Born in Forrest City, Arkansas, he earned degrees in English and education before completing a doctorate at the University of Arkansas. After serving as a pastor and schoolteacher, he joined the faculty of Ouachita Baptist University in 1962. Morris began publishing fiction in the early 1980s and eventually wrote more than 200 books, sometimes collaborating with his children, Lynn and Alan Morris. His novels combine adventure, romance and family drama with explicitly Christian themes, often depicting flawed characters struggling to preserve or rediscover their faith during periods of social upheaval.

Morris’s largest historical sequence is the forty-volume House of Winslow series, which follows successive generations of one family from the voyage of the Mayflower through the American Revolution, Civil War, western expansion, world wars and other major episodes in American history. The Appomattox Saga concentrates on interconnected families during the Civil War, while the Wakefield Dynasty moves through English and European history from the Reformation onward. His other historical series include the American Century novels, the colonial-era Liberty Bell books, the western Jim Reno stories and the Cheney Duvall, M.D. series, co-written with Lynn Morris and centred on a pioneering female doctor. Morris also wrote standalone historical novels such as Edge of Honor, which won the 2001 Christy Award for North American historical fiction, and The Angel of Bastogne, set during the Second World War.

Periods and events

American Civil War1861–1865 CE American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE Battle of Gettysburg1863 CE Civil War Espionage and Secret Services1861–1865 CE Confederate Government in Richmond1861–2 April 1865 Elizabethan Age1558–1603 CE Emancipation and Reconstruction1863–1877 CE English Civil War1642–1651 CE First Battle of Bull Run21 July 1861 First Transcontinental Railroad1863–1869 German Occupation of France1940–1944 Gilded Age Americac. 1870–1900 CE Great Depression1929–1939 CE Henrician Reformation1530–1547 CE Indian Wars of the American West1850–1890 CE Interwar Period1918–1939 CE Klondike Gold Rush1896–1899 Korean War1950–1953 CE Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE Mayflower Voyage and Plymouth Settlement1620–1621 CE Napoleonic Era1792–1815 CE Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE Oregon Trail Migration1840–1869 CE Progressive Era Americac. 1890–1920 CE Prohibition-era American Organized Crime1920–1933 CE Republic of Texas1836–1846 CE Roaring Twenties1920–1929 CE Santa Fe Trail Migration and Commerce1821–1880 Scramble for Africa1881–1914 Siege of Vicksburg1863 CE Silent-Era Hollywood1920–1929 CE Spanish Armada1588 CE Spanish Civil War1936–1939 CE Surrender at Appomattox Court House9 April 1865 Texas Rangers on the Frontier1835–1901 CE Texas–Comanche Conflict1821–1875 CE United States Civil Rights Movement1954–1968 CE Victorian Crime1837–1901 Vietnam War1955–1975 CE Watauga and Tennessee Frontier1769–1796 Western Front1914–1918 CE World War I Air War1914–1918 World War II1939–1945 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Gilbert Morris (13 series)

Lions of Judah in Order

by Gilbert Morris 6 books 4.5(3,040)

Lions of Judah retells selected narratives from Genesis through Joshua, beginning with Noah and continuing through Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and Rahab. The series expands short scriptural accounts into domestic and political stories about covenant, migration, slavery, deliverance and the formation of Israel. These novels are works of…

House of Winslow in Order

by Gilbert Morris 40 books 4.4(8,071)

The House of Winslow is a forty-volume family saga tracing descendants of an English religious dissenter from the Mayflower era to the Second World War. Across three centuries, the Winslows take part in colonial settlement, revolution, western expansion, industrial growth, overseas missions, modern entertainment and global war. Each…

Spirit of Appalachia in Order

by Gilbert Morris 5 books 4.4(2,942)

Spirit of Appalachia follows the Spencer family and their neighbours across the Appalachian Mountains into the Watauga and Tennessee frontier during the American Revolution and the unsettled years that followed. Migration, warfare, poverty and difficult courtships shape a community attempting to survive beyond established colonial authority. The five…

American Century in Order

by Gilbert Morris 7 books 4.3(1,763)

The American Century follows the Stuart family from the ambitions of Progressive-Era America through two world wars, depression, Korea and the upheavals of the 1960s. Successive generations leave the Arkansas hills for cities, battlefields, Hollywood and public life, carrying family loyalties into a rapidly changing nation. The series…

Water Wheel in Order

by Gilbert Morris 3 books 4.3(1,049)

Water Wheel is a trilogy of Mississippi riverboat romances set around the Civil War and Reconstruction. Women facing bereavement, debt or social displacement find work and responsibility aboard packet boats whose crews and passengers form unstable travelling communities. The novels use the riverboat world to explore class, regional…

Wagon Wheel in Order

by Gilbert Morris 4 books 4.2(2,713)

Wagon Wheel follows travellers and settlers moving along the Santa Fe and Oregon trails during the mid-nineteenth century. Each novel centres on a woman whose circumstances force her into an overland community where survival depends on strangers, convicts, soldiers or reluctant partners. The series combines western romance with…

Lady Trent Mysteries in Order

by Gilbert Morris 3 books 4.2(1,534)

The Lady Trent Mysteries follow Serafina Trent, an aristocratic widow and scientifically minded investigator, and Dylan Tremayne through a sequence of murders and inheritance disputes in late-1850s London. Their enquiries move between noble households, crowded streets and the developing institutions of Victorian policing. The novels combine crime fiction,…

Lone Star Legacy in Order

by Gilbert Morris 3 books 4.2(1,082)

Lone Star Legacy follows a family struggling to establish itself on the nineteenth-century Texas frontier. Migration, the struggle for Texan independence, conflict with Mexico and Indigenous nations, and the pressures of building a new society shape the trilogy’s adventure and romance. The series presents Texas history through fictional…

Winslow Breed in Order

by Gilbert Morris 3 books 4.2(707)

Winslow Breed is a prequel trilogy to the House of Winslow saga, tracing the family in Tudor England from Henry VIII’s reign through the Marian and Elizabethan religious settlements. Ambitious descendants of the Wakefield line enter court service, commerce and conflict as royal policy repeatedly changes the boundaries…

Wakefield Dynasty in Order

by Gilbert Morris 7 books 4.2(644)

The Wakefield Dynasty follows two interconnected English families—the aristocratic Wakefields and the humbler Morgans—from the Reformation through the Napoleonic era. Their descendants encounter biblical translation, confessional persecution, civil war, revival religion and international conflict. The seven novels combine dynastic saga, court politics and Christian historical fiction. Historical rulers,…

The Last Cavaliers in Order

by Gilbert Morris 3 books 4.2(431)

The Last Cavaliers follows Yancey and Clay Tremayne through the opening and later campaigns of the American Civil War. Military education, cavalry service and loyalties to commanders such as Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee place the brothers within the Confederacy’s rise and defeat.…

Appomattox Saga in Order

by Gilbert Morris 10 books 4.1(2,342)

The Appomattox Saga follows the Rocklin family from the secession crisis through the final campaigns of the American Civil War. Cousins, spouses and younger descendants serve on opposing sides, work as nurses or spies, and confront battles that progressively destroy the security of their Virginia world. The ten…

Bonnets and Bugles in Order

by Gilbert Morris 10 books 4.1(2,056)

Bonnets and Bugles follows the Carter and Majors families through the American Civil War, beginning with the shock of Bull Run and continuing through blockade running, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Cold Harbor, Atlanta and the war’s aftermath. Young people separated by allegiance and military service repeatedly confront the consequences of…

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