resting_place death_place death_date children birth_place birth_date spouse image article_title occupation
springfield cemetery , springfield , massachusetts hampden , massachusetts june 5 , 1965 thornton waldo burgess iii sandwich , massachusetts january 14 , 1874 nina e. osbourne burgess -lrb- 1905 -- 1906 -rrb- thornton burgess newspaper.png thornton burgess
 author of children 's books
thornton burgess

thornton waldo burgess -lrb- january 14 , 1874 -- june 5 , 1965 -rrb- was a 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 .
