Facts: - death place: middletown , connecticut - notableworks: '' '' '' the death of a president '' '' the american last lion : winston spencer churchill '' caesar : douglas macarthur 1880 -- 1964 - birth name: william raymond manchester - placeofburial label: place of burial - death date: 1 june 2004 - placeofburial: indian hill cemetery , middletown , connecticut - birth date: 1 april 1922 - name: william manchester - nationality: american - birth place: attleboro , massachusetts , usa - occupation: historian , biographer , professor Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william manchester .
william raymond manchester -lrb- april 1 , 1922 -- june 1 , 2004 -rrb- was an american author , biographer , and historian .he was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages .he was awarded the national humanities medal and the abraham lincoln literary award .