author
James Mott Hallowell
b. 1865
A Massachusetts lawyer and civic writer, he is best remembered for The Spirit of Lafayette, a short 1918 work that links Lafayette’s ideals with democracy in wartime America.
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The Spirit of Lafayette
by James Mott Hallowell
About the author
Born in 1865, James Mott Hallowell was an American writer and attorney associated with Massachusetts. Catalog and library records identify him as the author of The Spirit of Lafayette (1918), and reference collections also link his name to legal and public-affairs publications from the early 1900s.
His best-known book presents the Marquis de Lafayette as a symbol of democratic ideals and transatlantic friendship. The work was later adapted for the screen, which is why some film databases also list Hallowell among writers.
Reliable biographical detail about his personal life appears to be limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him primarily through his published work and his public-facing career in Massachusetts.