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William Walker
d. 1816
A little-known early American William Walker appears in genealogical records rather than literary histories, making him more a historical name than a clearly documented author. The available sources point to a man born in 1743 in Dighton, Massachusetts, who died there in 1816.
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The name William Walker is attached to many different historical figures, and for this entry the evidence is unusually thin. The clearest records I could confirm identify a William Walker born on December 14, 1743, in Dighton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, who died on March 20, 1816.
Those family-history records also describe him as the son of William Walker and Hannah Shaw, and say he had a large family with Elizabeth Reed. I could not confirm, from reliable literary or reference sources available here, that this William Walker was a published author, so it seems best to treat him as a historical figure whose connection to authorship is uncertain.
Because no trustworthy author-focused biography or portrait turned up in the sources I checked, some details remain unclear. If you have a book title or an alternate form of his name, that would make it much easier to identify the right William Walker with confidence.