American author and editor, Scudder was editor of Riverside Magazine for Young People (1867-1870),
and of Atlantic Monthly (1890-1902); author
of Dream Children (1864), The Dwellers in Five-Sisters Court (1876), A History of the United States (1884), and
biographies of Noah Webster (1882), Bayard Taylor (1884), George
Washington (1890), and James Russell Lowell (1901).
