<b>Timothy Shay Arthur</b> (June 6, 1809 &ndash; March 6, 1885) &mdash; known as <b>T. S. Arthur</b> &mdash; was a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel <b>Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There</b> (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.<br /><br />His stories, written with compassion and sensitivity, articulated and spread values and ideas that were associated with &ldquo;respectable middle class&ldquo; life in America. He also believed greatly in the transformative and restorative power of love as is shown in one of his stories, &quot;An Angel in Disguise&quot;.<br /><br />He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey&#39;s Lady&#39;s Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur&#39;s Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey&#39;s model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in America.