Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909), nephew of Edward Everett and great‐nephew of Nathan Hale, was a Boston Unitarian clergyman, philanthropist, and popular author. He wrote prolifically on many subjects, but is principally remembered for his tale
The Man Without a Country (1865). His other books include
If, Yes, and Perhaps (1868), miscellaneous tales ranging from the patriotism of the reprinted
Man Without a Country and the whimsy of
A Piece of Possible History to the satirical fantasy of
My Double and How He Undid Me;
Sybaris and Other Homes (1869), a Utopian satire of American society;
Ten Times One Is Ten (1871), a novelette concerned with the ethical influence of a dead man's ghost on his friends;
In His Name (1874), concerned with the 12th‐century Waldenses;
Philip Nolan's Friends (1877), a romantic account of the real Nolan;
The Fortunes of Rachel (1884), dealing with an orphaned English girl and her social career in the U.S.;
East and West (1892), a story of frontier Ohio; and two autobiographical works,
A New England Boyhood (1893) and
Memories of a Hundred Years (1902).
Franklin in France (2 vols., 1887–88) was the most important of his scholarly works.
