Joseph Converse Heywood
Joseph Converse Heywood (1834 - December 19, 1900) was a lawyer and writer of dramatic poems. Born in Cumberland County, Maine, he trained at Harvard University and became a lawyer before pursuing literary interests and settling in a palace in Rome. He wrote poems. In 1869 he filed a patent for improvements to weighing machines. Oscar Wilde was not a fan of his poem about Salome, but American critics were more favorable. Writings
Salome, the Daughter of Herodias (1862), reissued in 1872 with Antoniois and Salone: How Will it End? A Romance as a trilogy 
How they Strike One, three Authors (1877)
Sforza, A Tragedy in Venice (1885)
Lady Merton: A Tale of the Eternal City (1891)
Il Nano Italiano: A Libretto (1892)

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19th-century American lawyers
19th-century American writers
People from Cumberland County, Maine
1834 births
1900 deaths