Friday, January 21, 2011

Happy birthday, Charles Brockden Brown.

Charles Brockden Brown.
NYPL.
Gothic novelist Charles Brockden Brown, who may be the first professional writer in the United States, was born today in Philadelphia in 1771. His best-known novel, Wieland; or, The Transformation: An American Tale (1798), was praised by James Fenimore Cooper in 1827 as "a never-failing evidence of genius." He died in 1810.

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