John Trotwood Moore

John Trotwood Moore (1858–1929) was an American writer, born in Marion, Alabama, who made Tennessee his home and his subject. A schoolteacher and farmer, he wrote about horses and horse racing for the trade press, edited Trotwood's Monthly and the Taylor-Trotwood Magazine in Nashville, and published Songs and Stories from Tennessee, A Summer Hymnal, The Bishop of Cottontown and Hearts of Hickory. From 1919 until his death he was Tennessee's state librarian and archivist, and he wrote a history of the state. His middle name he took from Dickens's David Copperfield.