June 6 was the natal day of a long-forgotten but genuinely important American author named Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885). When I say that Arthur was important, I don't mean literarily. Poe correctly assessed him as a hack, but that does not bely the fact that he was both extremely prolific and popular. Arthur specialized in […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AM on June 6, 2022