George William Curtis was celebrated in his day as a best-selling author, literary journalist, editor, critic, and popular public speaker. A representative of the genteel tradition, he worked diligently for the democratization of culture and learning....

George William Curtis, a man of great versatility, high ideals, and immense charm, was widely admired as a journalist, author, orator, educator, reformer, and political leader during the last half of the nineteenth century. As a journalist, he wrote...

George William Curtis (24 February 1824-31 August 1892), critic and social commentator, was born at Providence, Rhode Island. After failing the entrance examination for Brown University in 1838, Curtis worked in a New York importing house but soon...

American writer, orator, and, especially, civil service reformer, George William Curtis (1824-1892) was a patrician whose ideals and causes are blurred in historical retrospect by a personal elitism that bordered on priggishness and was out of step...