Thomas Bailey Aldrich, so closely identified with the Boston Brahmin-literati of the later nineteenth century, was Boston plated rather than the genuine article, to paraphrase his self-description, quoted in the official biography by Ferris Greenslet...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich is remembered only for his one children's novel, The Story of a Bad Boy (1869). He was, however, one of the most respected literary men of his time. Ranked with William Dean Howells and Mark Twain as a novelist and with James...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich is of interest today for his contributions to American literature and journalism. As a literary figure he contributed to the development of realism in adolescent fiction; one of his novels introduced a character type that became...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Does the name mean anything to anyone any more? I fear not, except perhaps to students of New England literature or American local color or 19th-century children's literature. Yet when Aldrich's collected writings were published in 1897 -- he was then...

Judge Bailey Aldrich, 95, of Cambridge, a retired chief judge of the US First Circuit Court of Appeals, died Wednesday in his home. Judge Aldrich stepped down in 1972 after seven years as chief judge. He was first named to the US bench...