Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864
Birthday: July 4
Death: May 19
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
topic: Country, Writing, Simple, Difficulty Of Writing, Picturesque, Native Land