- Born: 1807
- Birthplace: New York
- Died: 1898
Author Theodore Sedgwick Fay was a lawyer who held numerous diplomatic posts in Germany, Switzerland and England from 1837 to 1861. He also served as editor of the New York Mirror. Sedgwick's most famous novel, Norman Leslie, was based on a famous murder that occurred in New York at the beginning of the century. Though it was immediately very popular, Edgar Allen Poe called the book, "the most inestimable piece of balderdash with which the common sense of the good people of America were ever so openly or so villainously insulted."
His other works include Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man; The Minute Book, a Record of Travel; Countess Ida; Hoboken, a romance of New York; Sidney Clifton; Robert Rueful; Ulric, a Volume of Verse; Views of Christianity; Great Outlines of Geography; History of Switzerland; and History of the Three Germanys.
Most Famous Works
- Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man (1832)
- Norman Leslie: A Tale of the Present Times (1835)
- The Countess Ida: A Tale of Berlin (1840)
- Hoboken (1843)
