Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Thornton Burgess
Born: January 14, 1874
Died: June 5, 1965 (aged 91)
Bio: Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.
Known for:
- Adventures of Reddy Fox (1913)
- Burgess Bird Book for Children (1919)
- Old Mother West Wind (1910)
- The Burgess animal book for children (1920)
- The adventures of Jimmy Skunk (1918)