John Neal (25 August 1793-20 June 1876), editor and novelist, left his home in Falmouth, Maine, to become a dry goods merchant in Baltimore. When his business failed in 1815, he read law and was admit...
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John Neal, in the years following American independence, was a strong and often irritating spokesman for literary nationalism and for the new romantic doctrines of Germany and England that were breaki...
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A staunch advocate of American literary nationalism, John Neal wrote fiction, poetry, and essays throughout a literary career that spanned nearly six decades. Neal was a contemporary of James Fenimore...
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John Neal
