Nathaniel Parker Willis Born: 20-Jan-1806 Birthplace: Portlane, ME Died: 20-Jan-1867 Location of death: Tarrytown, NY Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Journalist, Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Pencillings by the Way Father: Nathaniel Willis (newspaperman) Sister: Sara Payson Willis Parton (columnist, aka Fanny Fern) Wife: (d. 1845) Wife: Cornelia Grinnell (m. 1846)
High School: Phillips Academy Andover University: Yale University (1827)
The New York Mirror Foreign Correspondent (1832-36) The New York Evening Mirror Co-Editor
Author of books:
Sketches (1827, poetry) Fugitive Poetry (1829, poetry) Pencillings by the Way (1835, columns, 3 vols.) Melanie and Other Poems (1835, poetry) Loiterings of Travel (1840, columns) Letters from under a Bridge (1840) Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil (1845) Prose and Poetical Works (1846, anthology) Rural Letters (1849) Life Here and There (1850) Hurry-Graphs (1851) Outdoors at Idlewild (1854) Ragbag (1855) Paul Fane (1857, novel) The Convalescent (1859)
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