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302STRINGFELLOW, FRANK WILLIAMSabbath (Glasgow, 1854); Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Boston, 1856);The Minister’s Wooing (New York, 1859); Oldtown Folks (Boston, 1869); LadyByron Vindicated (Boston, 1870); Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives (NewYork, 1878); The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 16 vols. (Boston, 1896); TheOxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (New York, 1999).B. ANB 20, 906–8; DAB 18, 115–20; DARB, 524–25; DCA, 1137–38; EARH, 710–11; FD,39–49; MCTA, 149–52; NAW 3, 393–402; Charles Edward Stowe, Life of HarrietBeecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Journals and Letters (Boston, 1890); CharlesEdward Stowe and Lyman Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Story ofHer Life (Boston, 1911); Forrest Wilson, Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of HarrietBeecher Stowe (Philadelphia, 1941); Charles H. Foster, The Rungless Ladder: HarrietBeecher Stowe and New England Puritanism (Durham, N.C., 1954); EdwardWagenknecht, Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Known and the Unknown (New York,1965); Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (New York, 1994).STRINGFELLOW, FRANK WILLIAM (26 April 1928, Johnston, R.I.–2March 1985, Providence, R.I.). Education: B.A., Bates College, 1949; studied atthe London School of Economics, 1950; studied at the Episcopal TheologicalSchool, 1953; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1956. Career: Sergeant, U.S. Army,1950–52; legal counsel, East Harlem Protestant Parish, New York, 1956–57; lawyerand writer, New York, 1957–67, Block Island, R.I., 1967–85; cofounder, lawfirm of Ellis Stringfellow and Patton, New York, 1961.William Stringfellow, an activist lawyer and theologian, was born in Johnston,Rhode Island, in April 1928. The son of working-class parents, he grew up inNorthampton, Massachusetts. After graduating from Bates College in 1949, hewon a Rotary International fellowship that enabled him to study political theoryat the London School of Economics. He entered the U.S. Army in 1950 and servedfor two years in Germany. After studying briefly at the Episcopal TheologicalSchool in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he entered Harvard Law School in 1953.Following his graduation in 1956, he worked as a legal counsel for the EastHarlem Protestant Parish, a pathbreaking inner-city ministry in New York. Althoughhe continued to live in Harlem, Stringfellow angrily resigned from theparish in 1957 because he thought its leadership was “neglecting the Word ofGod.” He later wrote about this experience in one of his first books, My PeopleIs the Enemy (1964).During the 1960s, Stringfellow not only practiced law in New York but alsomaintained a rigorous schedule of writing and public speaking. He was very activein both the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement, and in 1964 Timemagazine referred to him as “one of the most persuasive of Christianity’s criticsfrom-within.”He consistently defended Episcopalians and other church peoplewho were harassed by either legal or ecclesiastical authorities for their heterodoxand radical views. Thus, in 1966 Stringfellow provided counsel to James Pike,*the bishop of California, regarding the heresy charges that had been broughtagainst him. In 1970 Stringfellow was indicted for harboring the fugitive Roman