Author: Wright, N. Hill
Biography:
WRIGHT, Nathaniel Hill (1787-1824: ancestry.com)
Born in Concord MA to Amos and Abigail (Clark) Wright, he generally gave his name as "N. H. Wright" or "N. Hill Wright" on title-pages. He established himself as a writer in Boston, his first known separate publication being an ode written for a group of young Republicans in 1808. He married Mary Hudson in Boston in 1809 and they appear to have had at least one child, but information is scanty. Between 1813 and 1817 they lived in Vermont, where he was a contributor to Middlebury's Columbian Patriot (1813-15) and its successor, the National Standard (1815-20)--the first of which advertised his Monody in 1814--and probably also to the Burlington Gazette, which puffed his Fall of Palmyra and praised his earlier "fugitive pieces." He may already have been turning out prose fiction for the Boston publisher Nathaniel Coverly: the titillating series of stories about Lucy Brewer, a supposed sharpshooter with the US Marines, is often attributed to him, along with other tales. He is sometimes confused with Nathaniel Wright (1789-1875), a lawyer born in New Hampshire who settled in Cincinnati OH. He died in Boston at the age of 37. (ancestry.com 15 Mar. 2021; Columbian Patriot 6 Jul. 1814; Burlington Gazette 12 Jul. 1816; Washington Whig [Bridgeton NJ] 10 Feb. 1817) HJ
Other Names:
- N. H. Wright
- N Hill Wright