The Belfry Pigeon

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Nathaniel Parker Willis mostly known as N. P. Willis, was a US writer, poet and editor who collaborated with prolific US authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was the topmost remunerated author during his time. He worked as a servant and forthcoming novelist Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the melodist Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara authored using the pseudonym Fanny Fern.

His hometown was in Portland, Maine, from a family of writers. His grandfather Nathaniel Willis owned periodicals in Massachusetts and Virginia, and his father Nathaniel Willis founded the Youth’s Companion, the first periodical intended for youngsters. Nathaniel had a persuasion in writing stories while studying at Yale College and started writing verses. He then became a foreign broadcaster for the New York Mirror. He finally relocated to New York and started his literary career. Writing on various volumes, he was paid around $100 each column and around $5,000 and $10,000 in a year. He formed his own publishing house, the Home Journal, which thereafter changed its name to Town & Country. In a short span of time, Nathaniel resided to a house in the Hudson River where he partly gave up writing in his later life.

Nathaniel entrenched his individuality into his storytelling and expressed with his crowd directly, particularly in his travelogues, in order for his literary standing be established in some ways by the reason of his peculiarity. He was critiqued, as his sister in her book Ruth Hall, intermittently denoted him as an unmanly and Europeanized. He also wrote a few poems, stories and a stage play. Apart from his immense success for some time, at his passing Nathaniel was almost disregarded.
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