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Horatius Flaccus
1816–1885
Better known by the pen name Horatius Flaccus, this nineteenth-century American writer brought a lawyer’s precision and a newspaper editor’s directness to his books. His work ranges from biography and class history to an ambitious study of life’s origins, giving modern readers a glimpse of a curious and wide-ranging mind.
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Life: Its True Genesis
by Horatius Flaccus
About the author
Robert William Wright (February 22, 1816 – January 9, 1885) was an American lawyer, politician, newspaper editor, and author who wrote under the pseudonyms Horatius Flaccus and Quevedo Redivivus, Jr. The pen name on this book is therefore not a separate author, but one of the names Wright used in print.
He is known today in library records and public-domain collections through works issued as Horatius Flaccus, including Life: Its True Genesis. The surviving catalog and reference material suggest a writer with broad interests, moving comfortably between public life, journalism, and book-length nonfiction.
Because easily available biographical information under the Horatius Flaccus name is limited, many personal details are best confirmed through records for Robert William Wright instead. Even so, the pseudonym has endured, and it remains the name many readers still encounter on nineteenth-century editions and reprints.