Title
Famous New England Authors
ISBN 0-396-06196-6
The aim of this book was to gather together the lives of peers who have made the most significant contributions to children's literature. Laura is the sister of two poets, Stephen Vincent Benét and William Rose Benét.
Biographies of twenty New England authors are included in the book with short excerpts from the work of each. The authors included are William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Marquand and Thornton Wilder
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
Collection
Lawrence History Center Library
Rights
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