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W. Gannon

Best known for compiling a wide-ranging edition of Mother Goose material, this elusive author gathered nursery rhymes, tales, and jingles into a hefty early-20th-century volume that still circulates in reprint and digital form. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an added air of mystery.

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Wonderful Development of Peter the Great's Pet Projects, according to His Last Will and Testament. American Invention as an Aid to Russia's Grasp on Asiatic Territory.

Wonderful Development of Peter the Great's Pet Projects, according to His Last Will and Testament. American Invention as an Aid to Russia's Grasp on Asiatic Territory.

by W. Gannon

About the author

W. Gannon is a little-documented author or compiler associated with Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, Tales and Jingles, published in 1902. Catalog and digitized library records also connect the name with Wonderful Development of Peter the Great's Pet Projects According to His Last Will and Testament, an earlier work from 1889.

Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, it is hard to say much with confidence about the person behind the name. What can be confirmed is the lasting presence of these books in library catalogs, reprints, and public-domain collections, especially the substantial Mother Goose compilation that helped preserve traditional rhymes and stories for later readers.

For audiobook listeners, W. Gannon is best approached through the books rather than the biography: as a compiler who brought together classic nursery material in an accessible, enduring form.