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James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker and submitting poetry to newspapers. Thanks in part to an endorsement from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he eventually earned successive jobs at Indiana newspaper publishers during the latter 1870s. Riley gradually rose in prominence during the 1880s through his poetry reading tours. He traveled a touring circuit first in the Midwest, and then nationally, holding shows and making joint appearances on stage with other famous talents. Regularly struggling with his alcohol addiction, Riley…
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by James Whitcomb Riley; Will Vawter [Illustrator]
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Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures
by James Whitcomb Riley; Will Vawter [Illustrator]
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Green cloth cover with some rubbing and bumps. Previous owner name inside on first blank endpage. Pages with some soiling and edgewear but otherwise unmarked. 188 pages.
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Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures: Indiana Bicentennial Edition (Library of Indiana Classics)
by Riley, James Whitcomb; Vawter, Will [Illustrator]; Krapf, Norbert [Introduction];
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Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures: Indiana Bicentennial Edition (Library of Indiana Classics)
by Riley, James Whitcomb; Vawter, Will [Illustrator]; Krapf, Norbert [Introduction];
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