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Burgess, Thornton W (Waldo)

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Burgess, Thornton W (Waldo) (1874-1965)

US writer. He published 54 books of stories for children, based on the bedtime stories he told to his son. The first two were Old Mother West Wind (1910) and Mother West Wind's Children (1911). Many featured a cast of animals with human names, talking and acting like people.

He was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He was a magazine writer and editor 1895-1911, and a syndicated newspaper columnist 1912-60. He promoted conservationist ideas through his books and his Radio Nature League, founded in 1925.

He borrowed the name ‘Peter Rabbit’ from the British author, Beatrix Potter.



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