Charles S. Olcott

Charles Sumner Olcott
Born	1864 Terre Haute, Indiana
Died	May 4, 1935 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education	DePauw University
Occupation(s)	Non-fiction writer, and apparently also a photographer. His photographs were used as the basis of the illustrations in the 1913 Houghton Mifflin edition of "The House of Seven Gables."
Children	2 sons

Charles S. Olcott (1864 - May 4, 1935) was an American non-fiction writer. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, he graduated from DePauw University and worked in publishing as the general manager of the private library of Houghton Mifflin. ^{[1] [2] [3]} He was the author of four books, including a two-volume biography of President William McKinley. ^[4]

Selected works

• Olcott, Charles S. (1910). George Eliot: Scenes and People in her novels. New York: T. Y. Crowell & co. OCLC   3844186.
• Olcott, Charles S. (1913). The Country of Sir Walter Scott. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC   1065419675.
• Olcott, Charles S. (1914). The Lure of the Camera. New York: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC   498836607.
• Olcott, Charles S. (1916). The Life of William McKinley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC   734046343.

References

1. "Charles S. Olcott" . The Hartford Courant. May 5, 1935. p. 32. Retrieved January 14, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
2. "Charles S. Olcott" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 5, 1935. p. 15. Retrieved January 14, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
3. "Charles S. Olcott" . The Daily News. May 5, 1935. p. 52. Retrieved January 14, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
4. "Online Books by Charles S. Olcott". Online Books Page . Retrieved January 14, 2019.

External links

• Works by Charles S. Olcott at Project Gutenberg
• Charles S. Olcott on the Internet Archive