author
Charles Madison Curry
1869–1944
A longtime literature professor, he helped shape how teachers and students approached reading, especially children's books. His work combined classroom practicality with a real respect for literature as something to be enjoyed and shared.
1 Audiobook
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
by Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger
About the author
Born in Whiteland, Indiana, in 1869, Charles Madison Curry became an English literature professor and a writer, editor, and reviewer whose work centered on reading and literary study. He taught at Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State University, and was active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Curry is especially associated with books designed to guide students and teachers through literature. He edited Literary Readings: An Introduction to the Study of Literature and also worked on Children's Literature, a handbook intended to support teacher training and classroom reading. That mix of scholarship and practical teaching seems to have defined much of his career.
He also wrote the alma mater for Indiana State in 1925. Curry died in 1944, leaving behind work that reflects a period when literature was taught not just as a subject, but as a way of forming taste, judgment, and a lifelong habit of reading.