“All is taken from my own experience; not a rule is laid down which I have not practically tested.”
About Maurice Thompson
9 September 1844–15 February 1901
James Maurice Thompson arrived in this world on September 9, 1844, in the modest hamlet of Fairfield, Indiana, nestled within Franklin County, where his father served as a Baptist minister. The boy who would grow into one of the most versatile literary figures of the late nineteenth century spent his earliest years in…