Joseph Benson Gilder

Joseph Benson Gilder
Born	(1858-06-29)June 29, 1858 Flushing, New York, US
Died	December 9, 1936(1936-12-09) (aged 78) New York, New York, US
Occupation	Editor
Parents	William Henry Gilder (father) Jane Nutt Gilder (mother)
Relatives	Richard Watson Gilder (brother) Jeannette Leonard Gilder (sister) William Henry Gilder (brother)

Joseph Benson Gilder (June 29, 1858 – December 9, 1936) was an American editor. He was the brother of Richard Watson Gilder and Jeannette Leonard Gilder and the explorer William Henry Gilder.

Biography

Gilder was the son of the clergyman William Henry Gilder. He was born in Flushing, New York, studied two years at the United States Naval Academy, and for some time was engaged in newspaper work in Newark, New Jersey and New York City. In 1881, with his sister, he founded The Critic, of which he was coeditor until 1906 when publication of The Critic ended.

Gilder was literary advisor to the Century Company (1895–1902); helped organize the University Settlement House of New York; in 1902–04 was United States dispatch agent at London; and in 1910–11 was editor of The New York Times Review of Books.

He died at his home in Manhattan on December 9, 1836.

Works

He edited:

• Essays from the Critic (1882) (with his sister)
• Authors at Home (1889)
• Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (1900)
• James Russell Lowell's Impressions of Spain (1900)
• The American Idea (1902)
• Addresses of John Hay (1906)

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Gilder, Joseph Benson" . Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

• Works by Joseph Benson Gilder at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Joseph Benson Gilder at the Internet Archive