Edwin Way Teale was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, and taught at several schools in the Boston area. While teaching at the University School, he wrote his first book, The Story of Johnny Appleseed, published by Scribner's Magazine in January 1904. Teale's efforts to promote the reading of literature rather than popular fiction were not entirely successful. He continued to write fiction until early in 1912, when he retired from full-time teaching to devote himself exclusively to writing
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Among his successes were the first novels published by Scribner's Magazine; The White Rose of Lymond (1910), The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci (1911), and The Sculptor (1912). He also wrote several books on art history including Art Through the Ages (1904), Art Through the Ages: A Manual for Schools (1908), The World of Art (1910), and Art Through the Ages: A History of Painting (1914).