Curtis Hidden Page

Curtis Hidden Page (April 4, 1870 – December 12, 1946) was a United States educator and writer.

Biography Curtis Hidden Page was born in Greenwood, Missouri. He graduated from Harvard University, where in 1890 he became the first recipient of the George B. Sohier Prize for literature. He held teaching positions in French and English at Harvard University (1893–1908), Columbia University (1908–1909), Northwestern University (professor of English literature, 1909–1911), and Dartmouth College (professor of English literature, 1911–1946).

Page was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature in 1933 and again in 1939.

Page also translated many French works, including A Voyage to the Moon, by Cyrano de Bergerac and The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife by Anatole France. He published a well-regarded translation of eight plays by Molière in 1908; of these, Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite is available online from Project Gutenberg.

He died in Laconia, New Hampshire on December 12, 1946.