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Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

Best known for writing about stammering from lived experience, this early 20th-century author turned a long personal struggle into practical advice and advocacy. His work blends memoir, self-help, and speech instruction in a voice shaped by persistence.

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Stammering, Its Cause and Cure

Stammering, Its Cause and Cure

by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

About the author

Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue was an American writer and speech advocate best known for Stammering, Its Cause and Cure, published in 1922. Contemporary book records also connect him with Advice to Stammerers and describe him as the founder of the Bogue Institute for Stammerers.

In the introductory material and catalog descriptions for his work, he is presented as someone who had stammered for many years before developing his own method of speech correction. That personal background seems to have shaped both his writing and his public work, giving his books a practical, first-hand tone rather than a purely medical one.

Archival records show that his papers survive in at least a small collection of letters at the New York Public Library, suggesting a documented public and professional presence beyond his books. Reliable biographical details about his wider life appear to be limited online, so most confirmed information centers on his published work and his involvement in speech therapy advocacy.