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FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881) , American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire , on the 31st of December 1817. At the age of seventeen he went to Boston as clerk in a bookseller's shop. Afterwards he wrote for the newspapers
Association. In 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor & Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of the foremost contemporary American writers, with whom he was on terms of close personal friendship, and he was the American publisher of some of the best-known British writers of his time, some of whom, also, he knew intimately. The first collected edition of De Quincey's works (20 vols., 1850-1855) was published by his firm. As a publisher he was characterized by a somewhat rare combination of keen business acumen and sound
taste , and as a man he was known for his geniality and charm of manner. In 1862-1870, as the successor of James Russell Lowell
Atlantic
chief
Thackeray
Hawthorne
His second wife, ANNIE ADAMS FIELDS (b. 1834), whom he married in 1854, published Under the Olive (1880), a book of verses; James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches (1882); Authors and Friends (1896); The Life
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