Question: is ts spivet a real person?
Answer: The spirit of Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet, the brainy 12-year-old protagonist of the new novel, "The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet" by Reif Larsen, seems loosely inspired by the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Spencer Baird, (1823-1887). ... When the fictional T. S.