Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby (* 1865 in Washington, DC, † 1925) was an American lecturer, writer and editor.

Life

Colby graduated from Columbia University in New York. After successful completion he was entrusted in 1890 with a teaching position at Amherst College ( Amherst ). 1891 moved to the same position back to New York to the Barnard College.

1893 Charles Kendall Adams caught up with him in the publisher Appleton & Company, where Colby expertly complemented the staff of the editor of several encyclopedias.

In addition to his day job as an editor created over the years a number of independent works and numerous articles in various newspapers and magazines, such as Commercial Advertiser, North American Review and The Bookman.

Works (selection)

  • Outlines of general history. ABC, New York, 1900.
  • Imaginary Obligations. Dodd Mead, New York, 1905.
  • Constrained attitudes. Essays. Dodd Mead, New York, 1910.
  • The marging of hesitation. Dodd Mead, New Yoerk 1921.
  • The Colby essays. Harper, London 1927 ( 2 vols ).
  • Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia.
  • New International Encyclopedia.
  • The International Yearbook.
  • Americans
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Born 1865
  • Died in 1925
  • Man
Amherst (Massachusetts) The Bookman (New York)
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