Fields

Fields, JAMES THOMAS, American publisher, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1817, and from 1839 to 1870 was a partner in the publishing firm of Ticknor, Reed, and Fields in Boston. He edited the Atlantic Monthly in 1862–70, and for many years lectured on literary subjects; and he wrote some books of verse, besides interesting volumes on Hawthorne and Dickens. He died in Boston, 24th April 1881.