Sotheran, Charles
journalist, author, was born July 8, 1847, in Surrey, England. In 1876 he began his first active work on the Metropolitan Daily Press; first on the New York World; then the New York Sun, and subsequently became associate editor and proprietor of the New York Echo. He has been literary editor of the New York Recorder and New York Star; Export and Finance, Sunnyside Press, Nym Crinkle's Feuilleton, Advocate, Dramatic World, etc.; and the author of Horace Greeley and Other Pioneers of American Socialism; The Theaters of New York; Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer, and other works.