April 1, 1898 - July 17, 1944
American mathematician, linguist, historian, teacher and author
Author of "Passaconaway in the White Mountains" (written under the pseudonym Charles Edward Beals, Jr.), "The Animate and the Inanimate" and "The Tribes and the States" (written under the pseudonym John W. Shattuck)
Entered Harvard at the age of 11 and graduated at the age of 16
Constructed a language called Vendergood (it was used in his second book, "The Book of Vendergood", written at the age of 7