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William Pilling
b. 1834
A Liverpool-born writer and newspaper publisher, he built much of his career in Buenos Aires and wrote English-language books about Argentine history. His work is best known for bringing South American political history to readers outside the region.
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Ponce de Leon: The Rise of the Argentine Republic
by William Pilling
About the author
Born in Liverpool on November 12, 1834, William Pilling later emigrated to Buenos Aires in 1852. There he worked as a journalist and eventually became a newspaper owner, building a career that linked British and Argentine literary life.
He is known for historical writing and translation, especially Ponce de Leon: The Rise of the Argentine Republic and The Emancipation of South America, his condensed translation of Bartolomé Mitre's history of San Martín. His books helped introduce English-speaking readers to major people and events in nineteenth-century South American history.
Some details of his later life remain a little unclear in the sources, but records agree that he was active as an author from the late nineteenth century and that he died in 1915.