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Thomas Aldrich, American Writer
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Thomas Aldrich was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; he grew up in New York, New Orleans, and other places that his father's travels took him.
He based his most famous work, Story of a Bad Boy (1870), on his own boyhood experience in Portsmouth. Mark Twain once said that Thomas Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy was his inspiration for Tom Sawyer.
Among his other works are the novels Prudence Palfrey (1874), Queen of Sheba (1877), and Stillwater Tragedy (1880).
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