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- Author: Charles Dudley Warner
- ISBN10: 1406576646
- ISBN13: 9781406576641
Charles Dudley Warner 1829-1900 was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago; was assistant editor 1860 and editor 1861-1867 of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harpers Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editors Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden 1870 . Amongst his other works are Saunterings 1872 , Backlog Studies 1873 , Being a Boy 1878 , In the Wilderness 1878 , Captain John Smith 1881 , Washington Irving 1881 , A Little Journey in the World 1889 , As We Were Saying 1891 and That Fortune 1899 .
