Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "The Way Of The World," which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.