Confessions of a Book-Lover. by: Maurice Francis Egan (World's Classics)

Maurice Francis Egan (May 24, 1852 - January 15, 1924) was an American writer and diplomat. He was a prolific writer and had a long and successful career as a Catholic journalist, literary critic, and novelist. He was a professor of English at two universities, and served as United States Ambassador to Denmark Maurice Francis Egan's father was an immigrant from County Tipperary, Ireland who became a successful industrialist. His mother was from Philadelphia. Egan was born in Philadelphia in...