In The Dark
Author: first_name: James Whitcomb
last_name: Riley
Language: English
Year: 0

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect.<br /><br />

Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker and submitting poetry to newspapers. Thanks in part to an endorsement from p