Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: History Today. Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. Between the ages of six and fourteen, he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, about the place and time again mentioned in his book Being a Boy (1877). He then moved to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He worked with a film crew in Missouri and then studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Chicago, where he practiced law from 1856 to 1860, when he moved to Connecticut to become assistant editor of The Hartford Press. By 1861, he became an editor, and held this position until 1867, when the newspaper merged with the Hartford Chime, and he became co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley. In 1884, he joined the editorial board of Harper's Magazine, for which he led the Editor’s Box until 1892, when he took charge of the Editor’s Study. He died in Hartford on October 20, 1900 and was buried in the Cedar Hill Cemetery, where Mark Twain served as a parishioner, and Joseph Twitchell performed duties.