Francis richard stockton biography of rory gilmore

FRANCIS RICHARD STOCKTON (), American novelist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of April He had a high school education; became a skilled wood engraver; wrote for the Philadelphia Morning Post, the New York Hearth and Home, Scribner's Monthly and St Nicholas, of which he became assistant editor in ; and about he gave up editorial work for independent authorship.

Thereafter he lived in Nutley, New Jersey, in Convent, New Jersey, and after in the Shenandoah Valley, near Charles Town, West Virginia. He died in Washington, D. C. on the 10th of April His fanciful stories for children made him very popular; among them are The Ting-a-Ling Stories (), Roundabout Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy (), What Might Have Been Expected (), Tales Out of School (), A Jolly Fellowship (), The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales (), The Story of Viteau (), Personally Conducted (), and Captain Chap ().

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