Will Durant
- Category : Historian
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 1/3 - Investigating / Martyr
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sphinx 4
Biography
American historian and educator. He studied for the priesthood while working as a professor of Latin and French. Disillusioned, he left in 1911 and moved to New York, rebelling as a radical anarchist. In 1917, he completed his Ph.D.
Durant published "The Story of Philosophy" in 1926. When it became a best-seller, it allowed him to write full time. With his wife and coauthor, Ariel, he published the first volume of their famed "The Story of Civilization" in 1935, a series that they continued to 1967, when they won the Pulitzer Prize.
They moved to Los Angeles in 1935 where they wrote and researched, living a secluded life style, writing and researching other than occasional lectures.
He died on Nov. 7, 1981 in, Los Angeles while recovering from surgery less than two weeks after his beloved wife and partner passed away at their home. He had just turned 96.