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Timothy Shay Arthur
![Timothy Shay Arthur](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: June 6, 1809
Died: March 6, 1885 (aged 75)
Bio: Timothy Shay Arthur known as T.S. Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.
Known for:
- Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper (1854)
- After a Shadow and Other Stories (1868)
- Grappling with the Monster (1872)
- Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them (1851)