From the Easy Chair (Esprios Classics)

George William Curtis (1824 -1892) was an American writer and public speaker born in Providence Rhode Island of New Englander ancestry. A Republican he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights. Curtis returned from Europe in 1850 attractive accomplished and ambitious for literary distinction. He settled on Staten Island and instantly plunged into the whirl of life in New York obtained a post on the Tribune became a popular lecturer started work on Nile Notes of a Howadji (1851) and became a favorite in society. He wrote for Putnam's Magazine which he helped George Palmer Putnam to found. He became an associate editor along with Parke Godwin and managing editor Charles Frederick Briggs; the three also collaborated on a gift book called The Homes of American Authors (1853).