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Warner, Charles Dudley

journalist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1829, in Plainfield, Mass. He is a popular novelist and essayist of Hartford, editor of The Hartford Courant from 1867, and one of the editors of Harper's Magazine from 1884. He is the author of My Summer in a Garden; Backlog Studies; Saunterings; Being a Boy; Baddeck and That Sort of Thing; Mummies and Moslems; In the Wilderness: Adirondack Essays; Life of Washington Irving; Life of Captain John Smith; In the Levant; My Winter on the Nile; A Roundabout Journey; On Horseback, a Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, with Notes of Travel in Mexico and California; The Work of Washington Irving; Studies in the South and West; Southern California; A Little Journey in the World; Their Pilgrimage; The Golden House; As We Go; As We Were Saying; The Relation of Life to Literature; and Our Italy.

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