title: William L. Slout
text: # William L. Slout
  
  William Lawrence Slout (July 17, 1923 – February 4, 2017) was an American professor of theater at California State University, San Bernardino. He wrote Olympians of the Sawdust Circle and other reference books on circus history.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Slout was born on July 17, 1923, in Charlotte, Michigan. He served in World War II and received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1947 and an M.A. from Utah State University in 1953. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
  
  Slout died in Redlands, California, on February 4, 2017, at the age of 93.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Author
  
  * Theatre in a Tent: The Development of a Provincial Entertainment (1972) ISBN 0-87972-028-X
  * Olympians of the Sawdust Circle (1998) ISBN 0-8095-0310-7
  
  ### Editor
  
  * Life upon the Wicked Stage: A Visit to the American Theatre of the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s As Seen in the Pages of the New York Clipper (Clipper Studies in the Theatre, No. 14, 1996) ISBN 0-89370-463-6
  * Old Gotham Theatricals ISBN 978-0-89370-462-9
  * Popular Amusements in Horse and Buggy America ISBN 978-0-89370-461-2
  * Broadway Below the Sidewalk ISBN 978-0-8095-1301-7
  * The Theatrical Rambles of Mr. And Mrs. John Greene ISBN 978-0-8095-0306-3
  * Clowns and Cannons ISBN 978-0-8095-1304-8
  * Amphitheatres and Circuses ISBN 978-0-913960-33-2
  * Ink From a Circus Press Agent ISBN 978-0-8095-1302-4
  * A Royal Coupling ISBN 978-0-89370-013-3
  * A Clown's Log ISBN 978-0-8095-1307-9
  * Grand Entrée (with Stuart Thayer) ISBN 978-0-8095-1309-3
  * Chilly Billy ISBN 978-0-89370-012-6
  