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A Defective Santa Claus by: James Whitcomb Riley and with Illustrators Charles Mark Relyea, Will Vawter

A Defective Santa Claus by: James Whitcomb Riley and with Illustrators Charles Mark Relyea, Will Vawter( )
Author: Riley, James Whitcomb
Relyea, Charles Mark
Illustrator: Vawter, Will
ISBN:978-1-9746-3818-5
Publication Date:Aug 2017
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $7.50
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James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 - July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". A Defective Santa Claus,...
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Pages:42
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.1 Inches
Book Weight:0.25 Pounds
Author Biography
Riley, James Whitcomb (Author)
Poet, lecturer, and journalist, Riley gained popularity with his series of poems in the Hoosier dialect written under the pseudonym "Benjamin F. Johnson, of Boone." These originally appeared in the Indianapolis Journal, where he worked from 1877 to 1885; in 1883 they were published as The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems. His most popular poems are "When the Frost is on the Punkin"' and "The Old Man and Jim." Riley went on numerous lecture tours, entertaining as an actor and humorist. Although best known for his dialect poetry---"comforting, familiar platitudes, restated in verse" (Richard Crowder)---Riley also wrote humorous sketches and other poems. He produced more than 90 volumes of popular poetry, some of which are available in reprinted editions. 020



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