Henry Beston:
(June 1, 1888 – April 15, 1968).
American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1928.
Born Henry Beston Sheahan, he was born and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts with his parents, Dr. Joseph Sheahan and Marie Louise (Maurice) Beston Sheahan, and brother George, a doctor. Beston attended Adams Academy in Quincy before earning his B.A. (1909) and M.A. (1911) from Harvard College. While at Harvard, he lived at the historic Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
