Merrills Word and Sentence Book: A Practical Speller, Designed to Teach the Form, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Use of Common Words (1902)

Donnell Wilson was born in Senath, Missouri, and grew up in an inner-city neighborhood in Saint Louis during the 1940s and 1950s.Raised by emotionally distant, evangelical Christian parents, he spent his teenage and young adult years in a flurry of violence-witnessing murders, suicides, and rapes. He married his first wife at seventeen and had four children by the age of twenty-one.Eventually, Wilson became a successful tradesman and business owner who has always lived a fast-paced life. He has been writing ever since taking his first writer's course in his midtwenties and also enjoys boating and fishing.He currently lives in Florida with his wife, Mary, and is working on two fictional novels.