Background
Willis, Nathaniel Parker was born on January 20, 1806 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Parker) Willis.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker was born on January 20, 1806 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Parker) Willis.
Graduated from Yale, 1827.
3 daus., 2 sons including Grinnell, Bailey. Published 1st verses in father’s Boston Recorder under signatures “Roy” or “Cassius;” established American Monthly Magazine, Boston, 1829-1831. Foreign correspondent New York Mirror.
Made attache by American minister in Paris.
Contributed under name “Philip Slingsby” to Metropolitan Monthly, Court Magazine, New Monthly. Returned to American, 1836.
Joined George P. Morris as partner, editor weekly New Mirror 1840, became daily Evening Mirror. Joined Morris in National Press, renamed Home Journal, 1846, Washington correspondent, 1861.
Author: Sketches (paraphrases of Biblical themes), 1827.
Fugitive Poetry, 1829. Melanie and Other Poems, 1835. Inklings of Adventure (collection of Slingsby papers) 3 volumes, 1836.
Biana Visconti, 1839, Tortesa, or the Usurer Matched, 1839 (both plays).
Rural Letters, 1849; Health Trip to the Tropics, 1853. Paul Fane (novel), 1857.
Fun Jottings (last two short stories).
Married second, Cornelia Grinnell, October 1, 1846.