"Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands" begins his poem "The Village Blacksmith"
Clement C. Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is more popularly known by this title
Urged to make his peace with God, this "Walden" author replied, "I did not know we had ever quarreled"
In Fred Gipson's novel, this "colorful" dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s
One of his best known works was "The Man Without a Country", but he himself was a man from Boston
This novel's widowed lawyer Atticus Finch had served in the state legislature
It's the pale dry sherry in the title of an 1846 Edgar Allan Poe tale
This 19th century female character "raised a great scandal in godly master Dimmesdale's church"
This 1925 Anita Loos book was subtitled "The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady"
This 15-year-old E.L. Doctorow high school dropout joins gangster Dutch Schultz' mob