Joseph Benson Gilder

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Joseph Benson Gilder (29 June 1858 - 1936) was an American editor, brother of Richard Watson Gilder and Jeannette Leonard Gilder and the explorer William Henry Gilder.

He was the son of the clergyman William Henry Gilder. He was born in Flushing, New York, studied two years in the United States Naval Academy, and for some time was engaged in newspaper work in Newark, N. J. and New York City. In 1881, with his sister, he founded The Critic, of which he was coeditor until 1906 when publication of The Critic ended.

Joseph Gilder was literary advisor to the Century Company (1895-1902); helped organize the University Settlement House of New York; in 1902-04 was United States dispatch agent at London; and in 1910-11 was editor of the New York Times "Review of Books."

He edited:

James Russell Lowell's Impressions of Spain (1899)

Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (1900)

The American Idea (1902)

Addresses of John Hay (1906)

Essays from the Critic (1882) (with his sister)

Authors at Home (1889)

During the 1880s and 1890s, Joseph contributed to various magazines including Scribner's Monthly and Harper's New Monthly Magazine. With his sister, Jeannette, he co-founded the Critic and served as one of the journal's editors. When the Critic was merged with Putnam's Magazine in 1906, Joseph & Jeannette became editors there. They knew many of the leading authors of the period. In 1888, they wrote: "Walt Whitman at Home" for the Amierican Authors at Home Series in the Critic. Joseph died in 1936.

Works Include:

Bordentown and the Bonaparts, 1880 Impressions of Spain (compiler) 1899 Authors at Home (editor) 1888 The American Idea as Expounded by American Statesmen (complier) 1902