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Charles Dudley Warner

About the Author

Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) was an American author and editor, and the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He published the instantaneously successful My Summer in a Garden in 1870, launching his literary career. Warner wrote extensively on politics, literature, art, and the social sciences, and co-authored The Gilded Age with his great friend Mark Twain.