# The other Winston Churchill **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741 "2020-01-21T12:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/1 "2020-01-21T12:50:39Z")
Was an American best selling author in the early 1900s. Just found out about this guy recently. Not related to the famous Churchill. > **[Winston Churchill (novelist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_(novelist))** > > Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. > He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. > Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding Churchill by his marriage to Emma Bell Blaine. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894. At the Naval Academy, he was ... ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/2 "2020-01-21T16:51:52Z")
**The Other Waldo Pepper** ’s favorite author, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/3 "2020-01-21T17:48:46Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > [Winston Churchill (novelist) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_(novelist)) I was the one who wrote the [original Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winston_Churchill_(novelist)&oldid=3717344) on this. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/4 "2020-01-21T18:01:30Z")
I discovered him when I went to the Brattle Bookstore in Boston, (back in 1973) home to reasonably priced old books. They had lots of Winston Churchill books. Didn’t buy any, bought some old Jules Verne books and a Mr. Dooley book from 1902 or so. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/5 "2020-01-21T18:06:38Z")
I’ve seen his books in the library but never read them. The statesman Winston Churchill always published under the name Winston Spencer Churchill or Winston S. Churchill to distinguish himself from the bestselling American novelist. By the way, the future statesman did write at least one novel which I have read years ago, a short political thriller called _Savrola_. It wasn’t exactly bad but it was forgettable. You can read it here: [Savrola; a tale of the revolution in Laurania : Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/cu31924013596170/page/n6) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/6 "2020-01-21T19:51:55Z")
I heard about him in the 60s when one of his books got the [Classics Illustrated](https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Classics-Illustrated-comic-HRN-143/dp/B006DJ0RNW) treatment. Of course, at that point, he had been completely forgotten. IIRC the comic explained who he was on the first page. The British Churchill wrote the American for permission to use his name, just adding the S. The US author was probably the best selling author of his time. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/7 "2021-04-02T17:42:03Z")
Bumped. Seems I might as well put this here. When WSC and HST played poker: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HmefhLjRfYw/hqdefault.jpg "David Brinkley on playing poker with Harry Truman and WInston Churchill- EMMYTVLEGENDS") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmefhLjRfYw) ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-winston-churchill/846741/8 "2021-04-05T12:34:26Z")
Winston S. Churchill (the famous Churchill) wrote some very good auto-biographical stuff (also some that hasn’t aged as well). Winston Churchill (the other Churchill) gets a shout-out: they were on good terms.