{"id":1043,"date":"2014-09-27T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2014-09-27T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T18:45:38","slug":"burgess-thornton-waldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/burgess-thornton-waldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Burgess, Thornton Waldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ph_twb.jpg\" alt=\"ph_twb\" width=\"140\" height=\"185\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_toad.jpg\" alt=\"bk_toad\" width=\"120\" height=\"195\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_old.jpg\" alt=\"bk_old\" width=\"120\" height=\"159\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_peter1.jpg\" alt=\"bk_peter\" width=\"120\" height=\"197\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Thornton Waldo Burgess, born January 14th in 1874<\/strong>, was a naturalist and conservationist who used his observations to write more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for a syndicated daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.<\/p>\n<p>His first book, <em>Old Mother West Wind<\/em>, was published in 1910. Many of his books were illustrated by his friend, Harrison Cady. Burgess&#8217; father died the year Burgess was born, so he began working as a child, picking berries, tending cows, harvesting water lilies, and trapping muskrats. One of his employers owned a wildlife habitat that so impressed the young boy that he later set his stories there, in <em>Smiling Pool and the Old Briar Patch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During his lifetime he founded land conservation programs, the Happy Jack Squirrel Saving Club to support war bonds, and The Radio Nature League, broadcast from Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Burgess died in 1965 at the age of 91. After his death the Massachusetts Audubon Society purchased his Hampden home and established the Laughing Brook Nature Center there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thornton Waldo Burgess, born January 14th in 1874, was a naturalist and conservationist who used his observations to write more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for a syndicated daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories. His first book, Old Mother West Wind, was published in 1910. 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