Background
Field, Walter Taylor was born on February 21, 1861 in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. Son of Horatio Nelson and Charity Lamoreux (Taylor) Field.
Field, Walter Taylor was born on February 21, 1861 in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. Son of Horatio Nelson and Charity Lamoreux (Taylor) Field.
Preparatory education, Denmark (Iowa,) Academy, 1876-1878. Student Dartmouth, 1879-1881. Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1883, honorary Master of Arts, 1918.
Editorial department South. C. Griggs & Company, publications, Chicago, 1883-1886. Associate editor The Advance, Chicago, 1886-1887. Connected with Harper & Brothers, publications, 1887-1890.
Studied and traveled in Italy, 1890.
With Chicago house of Ginn & Company, publications, since 1890. Treasurer Society Midland Authors, 1919-1923.
Member Authors’ League America. Author: Children’s Books—Their Selection and Their Influence, 1901.
Rome (2 volumes), 1904.
What Is Success?, 1910. The Quest of the Four-leaved Clover, 1911. (with Mistress Ella Flagg Young) Young and Field Literary Readers, 1914-1915.
Editor of The Abbey Classics, 1907-1910.
Readings from English and American Literature, 1919. The Field Readers, 1920-1925.
(with Katherine Martin) The Field-Martin Primer, 1925. (with Cornelius H. Patton) Eight O’Clock Chapel—a Study of New England College Life in the Eighties, 1927.
A Guide to Literature for Children, 1928.
Finding the New World, 1935. Psalms of the Modern Life, 1937. Home: Hinsdale, Illinois.
Member Authors’ League America.
Married Sara Lounsberry Peck, December 6, 1892. Children: Walter Donald (deceased), Ruth Alden (deceased), John Stanley.