Arthur Gleason

Arthur Huntington Gleason was an American journalist and author born in 1878 and dead in 1923. Library of Congress records describe him as a journalist, editor, and social reformer, and note that his papers document editorial work with Cosmopolitan, The Survey, and Collier's Weekly.

He is especially remembered for his reporting on Belgium in the early months of World War I and for writing books shaped by those experiences, including Young Hilda at the Wars and Our Part in the Great War. His surviving papers also point to another major side of his career: a sustained interest in the British labor movement, workers' education, and industrial reform.

That mix of war correspondence and social concern gives his writing a distinctive character. Even when covering dramatic events, he was drawn to ordinary lives, public service, and the pressures of modern society, which makes his work feel both historical and deeply human.