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T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon
1839–1914
A Southern journalist, playwright, and humorist, he turned a wide-ranging newspaper career into fiction, verse, and stage writing. His work moved between satire, regional writing, and Civil War reminiscence, giving readers a vivid sense of 19th-century American literary life.
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Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon
About the author
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1839, Thomas Cooper De Leon became known as an American journalist, author, and playwright. He studied at Rugby Academy and Georgetown College, worked in Washington before the Civil War, and later built a long career in newspapers and magazines.
After the war, he edited Cosmopolite and wrote for major publications in New York and the South. He also published novels, poems, plays, and memoir-like works, and is often remembered for his lively style, humor, and his writing about Southern society and the Civil War era.
De Leon died in 1914 in Mobile, Alabama. Today he remains of interest as a prolific 19th-century man of letters whose work crossed journalism, literature, and the theater.