Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey( 1836–1907),born in Portsmouth, N.H., lived in New Orleans, New York, and in his birthplace during his childhood. Portsmouth is the scene of his semi-autobiographical novel, The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). He had planned to enter Harvard, but when his father died in 1852 he took a business position instead, and soon began to write poetry for magazines. After the publication of his first collection, The Bells (1855), he held various posts on N. P. Willis's Evening Mirror and Home Journal, became a correspondent for the Tribune at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was managing editor (1862–65) of the Illustrated News. In 1865 began his permanent residence in Boston, the mecca of his ambition and home of the New England group of authors who were the objects of his lifelong veneration. He was editor of Every Saturday (1866–74), during which period he published The Story of a...
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