Riley
JAMES WHITCOMB, an papers and magazines, appearing under on October 7, 1849. Contributions to newson October 7, 1849. Contributions to newsthe pseudonym " B. F. Johnson of Boone," first attracted public attention about 1875.
His writings soon became so popular that JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY he devoted himself to literature and public reading of his work with great sucboth humor and pathos and by their sym- cess. His poems are characterized by pathy with the simplest phases of life.
Those of the Hoosier type are especially popular. He published , "Old Swimmin' "Poems Here at Home" (1893) "Green Hole" (1887) "After Whiles" (1887); Fields and Runnin Fields and Runnin' Brooks" (1893) "An of Mine"; "Rhymes of Night"; "While the Heart Beats Young" Childhood"; "Flying Islands of the (1906); "The Girl I Loved" (1910); "Old Times" (1915). He died in 1916. shore of the Adriatic, 69 miles by rail