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John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) [1] was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night , which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an ...
John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician; John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875; John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880; John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American pioneer and state ...
In the Heat of the Night is a 1965 mystery novel by John Ball set in the community of Wells, South Carolina. The main character is a black police detective named Virgil Tibbs passing through the small town during a time of bigotry and the civil rights movement .
John Ball (October 1585 – 20 October 1640) was an English puritan divine. Life. He was born in Cassington, Oxfordshire. [1] After taking his BA degree from St Mary ...
A Dream of John Ball is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard. He is famed for his question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" [1]
Sir John Macleod Ball (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford .
John Thomas Ball was born on May 10, 1990, [1] [2] [3] in Birmingham, Alabama, [4] where he graduated from Oak Mountain High School in 2008. [5] He received his baccalaureate degree majoring in music business from Belmont University in 2011. Ball is currently in the process of obtaining his master's degree in theology from Liberty University ...
Ball himself was converted to Methodism by another black preacher Moses 'Daddy' Wilkinson who was from South Carolina. Alongside other African-American preachers Boston King, David George, Moses Wilkinson, and Cato Perkins, John Ball immigrated to Sierra Leone and became a settler in Sierra Leone.