Stillwater Tragedy
Author: first_name: Thomas Bailey
last_name: Aldrich
Language: English
Year: 1880

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor.  Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, <i>The Story of a Bad Boy</i> and his collection of short stories, <i>Majorie Daw and Other People</i>.  <i>The Stillwater Tragedy</i> which was published in 1880 is set in a small New England manufacturing town whose tranquility is disturbed first by the murder of one of its prominent citizens and soon thereafter by a general strike