# Archie Binns

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{{Short description|American writer (1899–1971)}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Archie Binns
|birth_date={{birth date|1899|7|30}}
|birth_place=[Port Ludlow, Washington](/source/Port_Ludlow%2C_Washington), U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1971|6|28|1899|7|30}}
|occupation=Writer
|alma_mater=[Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University)
|spouse=Mollie (died 1954)<br>Ellen Binns (died 2008)
|children=6
}}
'''Archie Binns''' (July 30, 1899 – June 28, 1971) was an American writer.

Archie Binns was born in [Port Ludlow, Washington](/source/Port_Ludlow%2C_Washington) and attended high school in [Shelton, Washington](/source/Shelton%2C_Washington). He graduated from [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) in 1921. Though strongly influenced by his [Pacific Northwest](/source/Pacific_Northwest) upbringing, Binns moved to [New York City](/source/New_York_City) in the 1920s. While at [Charles Scribner's Sons](/source/Charles_Scribner's_Sons) publishing house his editor was [Maxwell Perkins](/source/Maxwell_Perkins). Binns returned to [Seattle](/source/Seattle) in the 1940s.  He taught creative writing at the [University of Washington](/source/University_of_Washington), at [Western Washington State College](/source/Western_Washington_University) and Skagit Valley College.<ref>"Archie Binns, NW Author, Dies" ''Seattle Times'', 4 July 1971.</ref>

Binns' first wife Mollie died in 1954.  He retired to [Sequim, Washington](/source/Sequim%2C_Washington), in 1964, where he continued to write until his death from a stroke. His second wife, Ellen Binns, survived him and died in 2008. Binns is survived by six children and many grandchildren.

==Novels==
*''The Maiden Voyage'' (1931)
*''[Lightship](/source/Lightvessel)'' (1934) (Appeared on [CBS Radio Workshop](/source/CBS_Radio_Workshop))
*''Backwater Voyage'' (1936)
*''The Laurels Are Cut Down'' (1937)
*''The Land is Bright'' (1939)
*''Mighty Mountain'' (1940)
*''Timber Beast'' (1944)
*''You Rolling River'' (1947)
*''The Headwaters'' (1957)

==Histories and Biographies==
*''Northwest Gateway'' (1941)
*''The Roaring Land'' (1942)
*''Sea in the Forest'' (1953)
*''Mrs Fiske and the American Theatre'' (1955)
*''Peter Skene Ogden: Fur Trader'' (1967)

==Juvenile Literature==
*''The Radio Imp'' (1950)
*''Secret of Sleeping River'' (1952)
*''Sea Pup'' (1954)
*''The Enchanted Islands'' (1956)
*''Here, Buster!'' (1962)
*''Sea Pup Again'' (1965)

==References==
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==Sources==
*{{isfdb name|id=17446|name=Archie Binns}}

==External links==
*{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747812,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043440/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747812,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Books: Nine Men|magazine=[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))|date=Aug 27, 1934 }} {{subscription required}} Review of ''Lightship''.
*{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,757663,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125024736/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,757663,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 25, 2012 |title=Books: To the Woods No More|magazine=[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))|date=Apr 19, 1937}} {{subscription required}} Review of ''The Laurels Are Cut Down''.
*{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,788986,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214202919/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,788986,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2008 |title=Books: Oregon Fever|magazine=[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))|date=Feb 27, 1939}} {{subscription required}} Review of ''The Land is Bright''.
* {{Librivox author |id=16049}}

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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Writers from Seattle
Category:Writers from Sequim, Washington
Category:1899 births
Category:1971 deaths
Category:American male novelists
Category:Novelists from Washington (state)
Category:People from Port Ludlow, Washington

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