Charles Dudley Warner
1829–1900
Biography
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) was an American essayist, editor and novelist, born in Plainfield, Massachusetts. He trained as a lawyer and practised in Chicago in the late 1850s, then moved to Connecticut to work on a newspaper. For most of the following decades he was an editor in Hartford, and in 1884 he joined the staff of Harper's Magazine. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and took an active part in public causes such as prison reform and the care of city parks.
His reputation as a writer began with My Summer in a Garden (1870), a set of gentle, observant sketches first printed in the Hartford Courant. Readers prized them for their humour, their love of the open air and their polished style. Warner went on to write travel books about Europe, Egypt, the American South and southern California, along with essays on literature and life. He was a close friend of Mark Twain, and the two men lived near each other in Hartford's literary neighbourhood known as Nook Farm.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, written with Mark Twain and published in 1873, is the work for which Warner is best remembered. The novel is a satire of land speculation and political corruption, and it gave the whole era of post-war American history its name. The book on this site is that novel, and it is the clearest way to see the partnership between the two friends at work.
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Books
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a satirical and political novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than…
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