Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
James Grant Wilson
Born: April 28, 1832
Died: February 1, 1914 (aged 81)
Bio: James Grant Wilson was an American editor, author, bookseller and publisher, who founded the Chicago Record in 1857, the first literary paper in that region.
Known for:
- Bryant And His Friends (1886)
- The Life And Letters Of Fitz Greene Halleck (1869)
- Thackeray in the United States (1901)
- Presidents of the United States 1789-1914 (1894)







