Bayard Tuckerman

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Bayard Tuckerman

1855–1923

A Gilded Age historian and biographer, this American writer turned the lives of statesmen, aristocrats, and military figures into vivid narrative history. His books ranged from a major life of General Lafayette to studies of Philip Schuyler and Peter Stuyvesant.

2 Audiobooks

A History of English Prose Fiction

A History of English Prose Fiction

by Bayard Tuckerman

William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery

William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery

by Bayard Tuckerman

About the author

Born in New York City in 1855, Bayard Tuckerman was an American author and historian best known for writing biographical and historical works. He came from a prominent family and built a reputation as a careful chronicler of political and social figures from American and European history.

His best-known books include a substantial biography of General Lafayette, along with works on Philip Schuyler and Peter Stuyvesant. He also wrote on social and cultural subjects, showing a strong interest in the people and institutions that shaped earlier eras.

Tuckerman died in 1923. Though not widely read today, his books remain useful to readers interested in older styles of biography and the way late 19th- and early 20th-century historians presented the past.