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Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 - June 5, 1965).
Born in Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he was a conservationist and author
of children's stories. Thornton Waldo Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its
living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he
retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns
in newspapers.

- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.