- Horace Scudder
Horace Elisha Scudder (1838 – 1902) was a prolific American
man of letters and editor. He was born into a Boston family,David Coit Scudder andSamuel Hubbard Scudder being brothers. He graduated fromWilliams College in 1858, taught school inNew York City , and subsequently, removing to Boston, he devoted himself to literary work.He is now best known for his children's books and the editorship he held of "
The Atlantic Monthly ". He published the "Bodley Books" (1875-87) and was also an essayist, and produced large quantities of journalism that was printed anonymously. He was a correspondent ofHans Christian Andersen , and biographer ofJames Russell Lowell . He edited also "The Riverside Magazine ".Scudder also prepared, with Mrs Taylor, the "Life and Letters of
Bayard Taylor " (1884) and was series editor for the extensive "American Commonwealths Series" forHoughton Mifflin .Works
* "Seven Little People and Their Friends" (1862)
* "Life and Letters of David Coit Scudder" (1864)
* "Stories from my Attic" (1869)
* "Stories and Romances" (1880)
* "Noah Webster" ("American Men of Letters," 1882)
* "History of the United States" (1884)
* "Men and Letters" (1887), essays
* "George Washington " (1889)
* "Childhood in Literature and Art" (1894)
* "The Book of Fables and Folk Stories"References
*"The Andersen-Scudder Letters" (University of California Press, 1949)
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