Thornton Burgess, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thornton Burgess

American conservationist

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1874

Place of Birth: Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 05-Jun-1965

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 17, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was an American conservationist and author of children's stories.
Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.
He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man.
By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.