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

• In Lockerbie Street: a little appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley (1909) a book by Mabel Potter Daggett.(transcription project)
• "James Whitcomb Riley", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• "Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley" on his 66th birthday, by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates.