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Riley, James Whitcomb

poet, was born about 1852 in Greenfield, Ind. He is a very popular poet of Indianapolis whose dialect poems of Hoosier life have been greatly praised. His earliest work appeared over the signature, Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone. His dialect and other poems display much real feeling and originality. He is the author of The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems; The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches; Afterwhiles; Old-Fashioned Roses; Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury; Rhymes of Childhood; Flying Islands of the Night; Neighborly Poems; An Old Sweetheart of Mine; Green Fields and Running Brooks; Poems Here at Home; Armazindy; and A Child World.