William James Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, to French-Canadian Catholic parents, Joseph Durant … See more

From 1907 to 1911, Durant taught Latin and French at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.
After leaving Seton Hall, Durant was a teacher at Ferrer Modern School from 1911 to 1913. Fe… See more

In 1908, Durant worked as a reporter for Arthur Brisbane's New York Evening Journal. At the Evening Journal, he wrote several articles on sexual criminals.
In 1917, while working on a doctorate in philosophy at … See more

On his personal religious beliefs, Durant wrote that “I am prepared to have you put me down as an atheist, since I have reluctantly abandoned belief in a personal and loving God. But I am loathe to leave the word G… See more

While Durant's work was well received by popular audiences, its academic reception was more critical. Classics scholar Moses Finley criticised Durant's The Life of Greece on a number of grounds, including the book's … See more