(William Gilmore Simms) — америк. поэт (1806 — 1870), по профессии адвокат. Он писал стихотворения ("Lyrical and other Poems" и "Early Lays", 1827; "The vision of Gain, Cortes and other Poem s", 1829; "The tricolor, or Three Days of Blood in Paris", 1830; "Atalantis", 1833 — лучшее произведение С.; "Southern Passages and Pictures", 1839; "Donna Florida", 1843; "Grouped Thoughts and Scattered Fancies", 1845; "Areytos, or Songs of the South", 1846; "Lays of the Palmetto", 1848; "The Eye and the Wing", 1848, "The Cassique of Accabee, a Tale of Ashley River", 1849; "The City of the Silent", 1850; "Poems", 1854; "War poetry of the South", 1867), драмы ("Norman Maurice, or the man of the people", "M i chael Bonham, or the fall of the Alamo"), ряд романов, изображающих в хронологическом порядке политическую и культурную жизнь Сев. Америки до начала XIX ст. ("The Yemassee", 1835; "Pelayo", 1838; "Count Julien", 1845; "The Damsel of Darien", 1845; "The Li l y and the Totem"; "Vasconselos", 1857; "The Cassique of Kiawah", 1860), романы неисторического содержания ("Martin Faber", 1834; "Carl Werner", 1838, "Confession of the blind heart", 1842; "The Wigwam and the Cabin", 1845 —46; "Castle Dismal", 1845; "Marie de Berniere", 1853; "Katherine Walton", 1851; "The tale of the Crescent City", 1866). Другие сочин. С.: "A history of South Carolina" (1840; 2 изд., Нью-Йорк, 1859), "Geography of South Carolina" (1843), "South Carolina in the revolution" (1854), "Egeria, or thoughts and counsel for the way side", несколько биографий. Полное собрание его сочинений издано в 1859 и 1882 гг., иллюстрированное издание — в 1886 г. Биографию С. написали Cable, в серии "American Men of letters" (Бостон, 1888), и Trent (ib., 1892).