Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Henry Mills Alden
Born: November 11, 1836
Died: October 7, 1919 (aged 82)
Bio: Henry Mills Alden was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years from 1869 until 1919.
Known for:
- Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (1862)
- A Study of Death (1895)
- Magazine writing and the new literature (1908)
- God In His World (1890)