Henry Holt

Henry Gartf Holt (January 3, 1840 – February 13, 1926) was an American book publisher and author.

Life and career Henry Holt was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 3, 1840. He graduated from Yale University in 1862. In 1905, Henry Holt's daughters Edith and Winifred co-founded the New York Association for the Blind, now known as Lighthouse International. Edith continued to be active with this charity, which provided the opportunity for blind people to do useful work. In response to critics she wrote "Some went as far as to say that it would be cruel to add to the burden of infirmity the burden of labor, as if to be without work were not the heaviest burden mortal could be called upon to endure."

In 1914 Holt founded The Unpopular Review, later renamed The Unpartizan Review, which ceased publication in 1920.

Holt published his autobiography, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor in 1923.

He died at his home in New York City on February 13, 1926, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.

Works Fiction Calire (1892) Sturmsee: Man and Man (1905) Steppenwolf (1926) Non-fiction Talks on Civics (1901) On the Cosmic Relations (1914) Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor (1923)