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Johnson, Robert Underwood
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| (1853–1937)
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| biography:
| Editor and poet, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Raised in Centerville, IN, he studied at Earlham College and in 1873 joined the staff of Scribner's Monthly. Named associate editor of the magazine (1881), by then called Century, he edited the famous Century series of Civil War recollections that later became Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (4 vols, 1887). A leading conservationist, he published John Muir's articles and lobbied for the establishment of Yosemite National Park. Century went into decline after 1900 and he resigned the editorship under pressure (1913). He was later ambassador to Italy (1920–1). A lifelong versifier, he published Poems of Fifty Years and two successor volumes in the 1930s. |
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