1785
Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (died 1859)
Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (died 1859)
Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (died 1859)
Thomas De Quincey
English essayist, translator and political economist (1785–1859)
- Born
- 1785
Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the Western world.