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Barton Wood Currie
1877–1962
A lively early-20th-century American man of letters, he moved easily between journalism, fiction, and the world of rare books. His writing career ranged from newspapers and magazines to editorial work and books about collecting.
1 Audiobook
Officer 666
by Barton Wood Currie, Augustin McHugh
About the author
Born in New York City in 1877, Barton Wood Currie built a varied career as an American journalist, author, editor, and book collector. He wrote for publications including the New York Evening World, New York Evening Sun, Harper's Weekly, and Good Housekeeping, becoming known as a versatile writer with a strong magazine and newspaper presence.
As his career developed, he took on major editorial roles, working with The Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, and World's Work. He later joined Doubleday, Doran & Co., where he served as an editor and continued shaping literary culture from behind the scenes as well as on the page.
Currie is also remembered for his love of books as objects of passion and pursuit. That side of his life comes through especially clearly in Fishers of Books, a warm and witty work that helped preserve the spirit of American book collecting in the early 20th century. He died in 1962.