Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822–1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1839.Hale was a prominent promoter of Chautauqua circles and "Lend-a-Hand" clubs.
Writings
His famous short novel, The Man without a Country, was published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. It was intended to inspire patriotism during the American Civil War.
- Editor "Lend-a-Hand Record."
- The Man Without a Country
- Ten Times One is Ten
- Margaret Percival in America
- In His Name
- Mr. Tangier's Vacations
- Mrs. Merriam's Scholars
- His Level Best
- The Ingham Papers
- Ups and Downs
- Philip Nolan's Friends
- Fortunes of Rachel
- Four and Five
- Crusoe in New York
- Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- Christmas in Narragansett
- Our Christmas in a Palace
- What Career?
- Boy's Heroes
- The Story of Massachusetts
- Sybaris and Other Homes
- For Fifty Years (poems)
- A New England Boyhood
- Chautauquan History of the United States
- If Jesus Came to Boston
- Memories of a Hundred Years
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We, the People
- New England Ballads
- Prayers in the United States Senate
Quote
I am one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.