ABOUT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
A nineteenth-century physician, teacher, and author, he is famous for his Breakfast-Table prose series, as well as for his 1830 poem, 'Old Ironsides.' He was one of the famous Fireside Poets, a group that included William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell .
He graduated from Harvard Medical School and subsequently taught at both his alma mater and at Dartmouth College.
He published numerous literary works in The Atlantic Monthly, a publication that he helped establish.
He married Amelia Lee Jackson in 1840.
He and Ralph Waldo Emerson were literary contemporaries.
