After the Storm was written by the very popular nineteenth-century American author who articulated and disseminated the values, beliefs, and habits of middle-class life in pre-Civil War America. Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 - March 6, 1885) -- known as T.S. Arthur -- was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Sa...