Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 March 6, 1885) known as T. S. Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperancenovel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. His stories,written with compassion and sensitivity articulate and spread values and ideas that were associated with "respectable middle class " life in America