2 Quotes & Sayings By Christopher Pearse Cranch
Christopher Pearse Cranch was born in 1802 and graduated from Harvard University in 1824. He was a contemporary of Robert Louis Stevenson and T.S. Eliot and lived the last two decades of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he practiced law and wrote several novels and poetry. His work, "The Winter's Tale," was considered the first "modern" American drama when it premiered in 1833
Cranch's novel, The Irish Rake (1848) sold more than 50,000 copies in its first year alone. His other works include The Last of the Mohicans (1825), The Boscobel Tragedy (1831), and The Daughters of Danaus (1863).