Yesterdays with Authors

This book shows the relationship of James T. Fields with different authors of that time. Chapters of reminiscence composing Yesterdays With Authors (1871) in which are recorded the author's personal friendship with Wordsworth, Thackeray, Dickens, Hawthorne and others. James Thomas Fields was an American publisher and author. At the age of seventeen, he went to Boston as clerk in a bookseller's shop. Afterwards he wrote for the newspapers, and in 1835 he read an anniversary poem entitled "Commerce" before the Boston Mercantile Library Association. In 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm know after 1846 as Ticknor & Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. In 1862-1870, as the successor of James Russell Lowell, he edited the Atlantic Monthly. In 1871 Fields retired from business and from his editorial duties, and devoted himself to lecturing and writing. In addition to his work as a publisher and essayist, Fields wrote poetry; a number of his works are collected in his book Ballads and Verses published in 1880.