Thornton Burgess
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1874 – 1965
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Who was Thornton Burgess?
Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.
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- Born
- Jan 14, 1874
Sandwich - Also known as
- Bedtime Story-Man
- W. B. Thornton
- Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
- W. Burgess Thornton
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Sandwich High School
- Died
- Jun 5, 1965
Hampden
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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