(1822–1909). A clergyman and author, Edward Everett Hale wrote the famous story “The Man Without a Country.” Published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863, it tells of a man, Philip Nolan, who is sentenced never to see his homeland again and who learns too late what it meant to him.
Edward Everett Hale was born on April 3, 1822, in Boston, Mass. As a student at Harvard College he reported meetings of the Massachusetts legislature for his father’s paper, the Boston Daily Advertiser. He graduated in 1839 and taught while studying for the Unitarian ministry. He was ordained in 1846 and spent ten years as minister of the Church of Unity in Worcester, Mass. He then went to the South Congregational Church in Boston, where he stayed for 43 years. In addition to novels, Hale wrote several volumes of reminiscences. He considered In His Name, published in 1873, his best book, but A New England Boyhood (1893) was very popular. His other works include James Russell Lowell and His Friends (1899) and Memories of a Hundred Years (1902). From 1903 until his death on June 10, 1909, in Boston, he was chaplain of the United States Senate.