GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold (1793-1860), an American author better know n under the pseudonym of Peter Parley, was the son of a Congregational minister, and was born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, August 19, 1793. In 1814 he commenced business as a publisher in Hartford. He visited Europein 1823-4, and on his return to America removed to Boston, where from 1828 to 1842 he published an illustrated journal, the Token, to which he was a frequent contributor both in prose and verse. A selection from these contributions was published in 1841 under the title Sketches from a Student's Window. In the same year he established Merry's Museum, which he continued to edit till 1854. In 1827 he commenced, under the name of “Peter Parley,” his series of books for the young, which, embracing geography, biography, history, science, and miscellaneous tales, numbered in 1857 as many as 170 volumes, of which about 7,000,000 had been sold, and 300,000 were being sold annually. In 1858 he published Recollections of a Lifetime, which contains a list both of the works of which he was the author and of the spurious works published under his name. By his writings and publications he amassed a large fortune. In 1838 he was chosen a member of the senate of Massachusetts, and in 1851 he was appointed consul to Paris, where he remained till 1855, taking advantage of his stay to have several of his works translated into French. After his return to America he published, in 1859, History of the Animal Kingdom. He died at New York, May 9, 1860.