| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Hale, Edward Everett |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h l |
| DATES: | 1822–1909 |
| American Unitarian cleric and writer whose more than 150 literary works include the story “The Man Without a Country” (1863). His sister Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820–1900) wrote two noted children's books, The Peterkin Papers (1880) and The Last of the Peterkins (1886).
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