Stephen
Edward
Ambrose
Born in Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin, USA
Ancestors 
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 66
in Bay Saint Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Feb 2019
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Biography
Stephen Ambrose is Notable.
Stephen Edward Ambrose was born in 1936, the son of Stephen Hedges Ambrose and Rosepha (Trippe). He is best known as an American author, historian and biographer. He married Moira Buckley and passed away in 2002.
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- Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 February 2019), memorial page for Stephen Edward Ambrose (10 Jan 1936–13 Oct 2002), Find A Grave Memorial no. 6850366, citing Gardens Of Memory Memorial Park, Bay Saint Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6850366/stephen-edward-ambrose
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2021-01-10. Per today's The Writer's Almanac, Ambrose was born in Lovington, Illinois. See below.
The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, January 10, 2021
https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for-january-10-2021/
[January 10, 2021] And it’s the birthday of Stephen E. Ambrose (books by this author), born in Lovington, Illinois (1936), who wrote several best-selling books about American history, including Band of Brothers (1992) and Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996).
He was a longtime professor, and many of the stories he wrote in his popular history books were ones he’d told over and over to his college students, trying hard to entertain them. He said: “There is nothing like standing before 50 students at 8:00 a.m. to start talking about an event that occurred 100 years ago, because the look on their faces is a challenge — ‘Let’s see you keep me awake.’ You learn what works and what doesn’t in a hurry.”
Ambrose participated in the more than 1,400 interviews of World War II veterans, collecting oral histories of the war, and he drew upon those interviews to write one of his most popular books, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (1994). He was also the founder and director of the National D-Day Museum, which opened in New Orleans in 2000. He died in 2002.
Ambrose said: “The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: Marry an English major.”
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