FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS

(18171881), author and publisher. b. at Portsmouth, N. H., December 31, 1817; d. in Boston, April 24, 1881, In 1834 he became the junior partner in the book publishing firm of Ticknor, Reed and Fields, later Ticknor and Fields, and then Fields and Osgood. Editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1862-1870. Author of Poems, 1840; Yesterdays with Authors, 1872; Hawthorne, 1875; In and Out of Doors With Charles Dickens, 1876; Ballads, and Other Verse, 1881. Edited with E. P. Whipple Library of British Poetry. Eng. politician and soldier; Round head in Civil War; distinguished at Worcester and Edge hill; sentenced to death for surrendering Bristol to Royalists in 1643, but pardoned.