Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
Press on!--For in the grave there is no work And no device--Press on! while yet ye may!
Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1806-1867, Poet, Publisher & Journalist, Founder of the New York Mirror, Poem Delivered at Yale University
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Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern. Harriet Jacobs wrote her autobiography while being employed as his children's nurse.
