T. S. Arthur

Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885), known as T. S. Arthur, was a 19th-century American writer. He is best known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which contributed to negative public views of alcohol.

His stories, written with compassion and sensitivity, articulated and spread values and ideas that were associated with “respectable middle class“ life in America. He also believed greatly in the transformative and restorative power of love as is shown in one of his stories, "An Angel in Disguise".

He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years.