Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey | |
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Thomas de Quincey by Sir John Watson-Gordon | |
| Born | Thomas Penson Quincey 15 August 1785 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 8 December 1859 (aged 74) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Resting place | St Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Notable works | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" |
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Thomas Penson De Quincey (/də ˈkwɪnsi/; né Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.