Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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About
A nineteenth-century American poet, novelist, and editor, he is best known for The Story of a Bad Boy and An Old Town by the Sea. The former work may have inspired Mark Twain's famous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Before Fame
At the age of sixteen, he began working for his uncle's New York business. He later edited Ticknor and Fields, a popular Boston-based publication.
Trivia
He edited the Atlantic Monthly during the 1880s and 1890s.
Family Life
He grew up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He later married and had two sons.
Associated With
He was friends with poet Walt Whitman.
