George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights.
Books in order of publication:
- Notes of a Howadji (1851)
- The Howadji in Syria (1852)
- Lotus-Eating (1852)
- Potiphar Papers (1853)
- The Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times (1856)
- Prue and I (1856)
- Trumps (1862)
- Washington Irving: A Sketch (1891)
- Essays from the Easy Chair (1893)
- Orations And Addresses (1894)
- Literary and Social Essays (1895)
- Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord (1898)
- Ars Recte Vivendi (1898
