Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), an American essayist and novelist, was born of Puritan ancestry. He traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the pulic good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and is coauthor, with Mark Twain, of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.