The novelist Donald Grant died at the age of 86. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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An American essayist and fiction writer, he is particularly known for his essay collection, Reveries of a Bachelor, which focuses on the dream-like lives of mid-nineteenth-century Americans. His other works include Doctor Johns (1866) and My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book (1863).
He was the Connecticut-born son of politician Stephen Mix Mitchell.