Thomas Gold Appleton was an American author, poet, and patron of the arts, born into a wealthy Boston family. As a prominent member of the New England intellectual elite, he was known for his wit, travel writings, and support for artists. He was a close friend and brother-in-law to the famed poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Appleton is most famously remembered for coining the aphorism, 'Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.'