Publisher, Poet. Nathaniel Parker Willis, who often went by N. P. Willis, was the editor and founder of several periodicals, including "The Home Journal", now published as "Town and Country". He worked with several well-known literary figures including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For a time, he was the highest-paid magazine writer in the United States. Pallbearers at his funeral included James T. Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel Gridley Howe, and James Russell Lowell.
Publisher, Poet. Nathaniel Parker Willis, who often went by N. P. Willis, was the editor and founder of several periodicals, including "The Home Journal", now published as "Town and Country". He worked with several well-known literary figures including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For a time, he was the highest-paid magazine writer in the United States. Pallbearers at his funeral included James T. Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel Gridley Howe, and James Russell Lowell.
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