Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
James Whitcomb Riley
Born: October 7, 1849
Died: July 22, 1916 (aged 66)
Bio: James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively.
Known for:
- Little Orphant Annie (1885)
- The Raggedy Man (1907)
- Riley child-rhymes (1898)
- Rhymes of Childhood (1890)