C
Charles Dana Gibson
writer
- Born:
- 1867-09-14, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
- Died:
- 1944-12-23, New York City, New York, USA
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
On 14 September 1867, Roxbury, Massachusetts, greeted the arrival of Charles Dana Gibson, a mind that would soon turn pen-and-ink into national conversation. With swift, sure strokes he chronicled Gilded-Age romance and social satire, bringing the world the comic charms of *Saved by Parcel Post* in 1913 and the marital misadventures of *The Education of Mr. Pipp* the following year. Off the drawing board, he claimed the hand of Irene Langhorne, the spirited Virginian who inspired many a Gibson ideal. Nearly eight decades after his first breath, New York City hosted his last on 23 December 1944, closing the book on an artist-writer who had sketched an era.
