Thomas Nelson Page

Thomas Nelson Page was born in Virginia, practiced law in Richmond and became a popular writer of stories about the Old South. His story Marse Chan appeared in Century magazine in 1884, and his collection In Ole Virginia followed in 1887. His work romanticized the plantation South and is now read with that in mind. He also wrote Christmas stories such as The Shepherd Who Watched by Night. He served as United States ambassador to Italy from 1913 to 1919.