Elbert Green Hubbard
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher
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Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher who was influential in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He matters as a notable cultural figure whose work spanned multiple creative fields during an important period in American intellectual and artistic history.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1856-01-01
- Died
- 1915-01-01
- Works
- 2
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5 total works indexed
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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Among Hubbard's many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine SM U-20 off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.