Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner (born September 12, 1829 in Plainfield , Massachusetts , † October 20, 1900 in Hartford , Connecticut ) was an American lawyer, journalist and writer.

Life

Warner was born to Puritan parents.

Until 1851 he attended Hamilton College in Clinton , New York . He later studied law at the University of Pennsylvania . He practiced in Chicago between 1856 and 1860 . He worked as a journalist and from 1861 as editor of the magazine Hartford Courant .

Warner was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters , which later became the American Academy of Arts and Letters , and president of the American Social Science Association until his death .

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Warner's best-known work is the novel The gilded age of 1873 , written together with Mark Twain , a moral image of the time.

Works (selection)

Essays

  • My summer in a garden (1870, German: My summer in a garden )
  • Saunterings (1872)
  • BackLog Studies (1873)
  • The relation of literature to life (1897)

Novels

  • The Gilded Age (1873, with Mark Twain)
  • A little journey in the world (1889)
  • The golden house (1895)
  • That fortune (1899)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biography at Cedar Hill Cemetery & Foundation
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