This is Andrew Lang, born 1844, died 1912, who was a poet, novelist, literary critic, and collector of folk and fairy tales. I don’t know that much about him because whenever I look him up I always get distracted by how ridiculously attractive he was. Hands down way more attractive than anyone alive today.

From my scant knowledge, I can say that he put together the “Blue Fairy Book” and the rest (with different colors in their titles, like red, pink, or green). He also helped to start the field of parapsychology. Incidentally, he may have approved of this tumblr, had he seen it, as one of his books was titled “Letters to Dead Authors” and a later one was titled “New and Old Letters to Dead Authors.” Clearly, he was pretty into people who had already died.