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Maurice Thompson
1844–1901
A Civil War veteran turned naturalist and storyteller, he wrote vividly about the American South and the Indiana woods he loved. His work ranges from novels and poems to influential writing on archery, reflecting a life spent close to both books and the outdoors.
5 Audiobooks
Eleven Possible Cases
by Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler
Alice of Old Vincennes
by Maurice Thompson
Hoosier Mosaics
by Maurice Thompson
Milly: At Love's Extremes; A Romance of the Southland
by Maurice Thompson
A Fortnight of Folly
by Maurice Thompson, Hugh Conway
About the author
Maurice Thompson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, naturalist, and archer, born in Fairfield, Indiana, on September 9, 1844. As a boy he lived in the South and was educated largely by tutors, an upbringing that helped shape the regional settings and outdoor detail that became hallmarks of his writing.
After serving in the Civil War, he returned to Indiana and worked in civil engineering and law before gaining a wide readership as an author. He became especially known for fiction and essays rooted in Southern and Midwestern landscapes, and for nature writing that drew on close observation rather than sentiment alone.
He is also remembered for helping spark renewed American interest in archery through his 1878 book The Witchery of Archery. Thompson died in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on February 15, 1901, leaving behind a body of work that blends literary craft with a lifelong love of the natural world.