Ben Ames Williams (March 7, 1889 – February 4, 1953) was an accomplished American novelist and short story writer; he wrote hundreds of short stories and over thirty novels during the course of his life. Among his novels are
Come Spring (1940),
Leave Her to Heaven (1944)
House Divided (1947), and
The Unconquered (1953). He was published in many magazines, but the majority of his stories appeared in the pages of the
Saturday Evening Post.