Godwin, Parke
journalist, author, was born Feb. 25, 1816, in Paterson, N. J.
He is a journalist of New York city, the son-in-law of the poet Bryant, whose writings he has edited. He was long connected with the Evening Post, and was the editor of Putnam's Monthly Magazine in 1853-55 and in 1867-70. He is the author of Pacific and Constructive Democracy; Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier; Vala, a mythological tale; Political Essays; History of France; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Out of the Past, a collection of essays; Commemorative Addresses; and Handbook of Universal Biography.