Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806–1867)

US poet, writer, and editor. Born in Portland, Maine, he and his family moved to Boston, Massachusetts in1812 and he studied at Yale, where he was known as a poet, gaining a BA in 1927. He became a journalist and founded the American Monthly magazine in 1829. After moving to New York, New York, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Mirror until 1836, and eventually became co-editor there. He travelled to England often, maintained a home by the Hudson River, and was noted for epistolary essays, as seen in Pencillings by the Way (1844).