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Poet, journalist, editor, and short-story writer. Influential in the development of the short story form in America.
Aldrich served as a junior literary critic for the
New York Evening Mirror
, sub-editor of the
Home Journal
, and war correspondent for the
New-York Tribune
during the Civil War. He edited the
New York Illustrated News
, the Boston literary magazine
Every Saturday
(1865 to 1874), and
The Atlantic Monthly
(1881 to 1890).