Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Green Hubbard, American philosopher and writer
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915) was an American philosopher and writer. He is perhaps most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia.
He was born in Bloomington, Illinois and founded an artist colony in East Aurora, New York. in 1895. There he established the Roycroft Press, which was inspired by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press.
He is the great uncle of American writer and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard.
He was killed in the sinking of the Lusitania by the German submarine, Unterseeboot 20 in May of 1915.
Further reading
- Upton Sinclair The Brass Check (1919), chapter "The Elbert Hubbard Worm"
External links
- Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora (http://www.bigeye.com/elberth.htm)
- A message to Garcia (http://www.janelanaweb.com/manageme/carta_garcia.html)
- A message to Garcia (http://hightechbiz.com/pub/messagetogarcia.htm)
- Project Gutenberg texts of Hubbard's works (http://www.gutenberg.net/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=228)