Author:James Whitcomb Riley

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James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

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A beloved American writer and poet called the "Hoosier poet" and America's "Children's Poet" made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875.

James Whitcomb Riley

Works

• "A Defective Santa Claus" (1904)
• "Little Orphant Annie"
• "Longfellow" (1907)
• "Out to Old Aunt Mary's"
• "The Raggedy Man"
• "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" (1902)
• "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
• "The Old Swimmin' Hole"
• "Old Fashioned Roses"
• "Nothin' to Say"
• "The Fishin' Party"
• "Natural Perversities"
• "Thinkin' Back"

Works about Riley

• "James Whitcomb Riley", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• "Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley" on his 66th birthday, by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1916, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.