Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867His obituary is printed in full in Marie Cleary, “A Book of Decided Usefulness: Thomas Bulfinch’s ‘The Age of Fable,’” The Classical Journal 75.3 (February 1980) (pp. 248-249).) was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts, best known for the book Bulfinch's Mythology.