Maurice Thompson

Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist, born at Fairfield, Indiana, and raised in Georgia. He served in the Confederate army, then practised as an engineer and lawyer in Indiana, and became an expert on archery.

He is best known for the novel Alice of Old Vincennes (1900). His lyric poems on nature, such as “Fertility”, were collected in volumes including Songs of Fair Weather (1883).