name: Charles Dudley Warner
birth_date: 1829-09-12 00:00:00
death_date: 1900-10-20 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
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about: Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.Warner travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association.