What is Nathaniel Parker Willis?
{{Infobox Writer | name = Nathaniel Parker Willis | image = NPWillis-brady.jpg | caption = Nathaniel Parker Willis | birth_date = {{birth date|1806|1|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Portland, Maine]], [[United States]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1867|1|20|1806|1|20|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York|Cornwall-on-Hudson]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States | resting_place = [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]], Cambridge, Massachusetts | occupation = Editor<br>[[Literary critic]]<br>Poet | signature = NPWillis-signature.jpg | nationality = American | genre = [[Travel literature]] and other genres }} '''Nathaniel Parker Willis''' (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867) was an American [[writer]], [[poet]] and [[editor|magazine editor]]. For a time, he was paid more money than any other writer in the [[United States]]. He worked together with famous authors like [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. His brother [[Richard Storrs Willis]] was a [[composer]] of music, and his sister Sara was also a writer. As a writer, Sara used the name [[Fanny Fern]]. For many years, [[Harriet Jacobs]] was working as a [[nanny]] for his children. While she was doing that work, she also wrote a famous book called ''Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl''. Willis studied at [[Yale College]]. During that time he started to publish poems. After that, he worked as a [[journalist]] for a newspaper, the ''New York Mirror''. In 1846, he started his own [[magazine]], the ''Home Journal''. The ''Home Journal'' later became ''[[Town and Country]]'' and still exists today. He used his money to build a big house near the [[Hudson River]] in the state of [[New York (state)|New York]]. When he died, most American people had already forgotten him. == Books == *Auser, Cortland P. ''Nathaniel P. Willis''. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969. *Baker, Thomas N. ''Sentiment and Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame''. New York, Oxford University Press, 2