Charles Maurice Stebbins

Charles Maurice Stebbins was an American educator, author, and poet, born in 1871. Records for his published work show him writing poetry as early as the 1890s, and library catalogs connect his name with school readers, literature anthologies, and English textbooks as well as original verse.

He is especially associated with Brooklyn, where sources describe him as a high school teacher of Latin and English at Boys High School and Erasmus Hall High School. That background helps explain the practical, literary focus of much of his writing: some books were clearly meant for students and teachers, while others, such as Christmas Eve, and Other Poems and The Crystal Palace and Other Legends, show a more imaginative side.

Stebbins died in 1937. Although he is not widely known today, the surviving catalog records and public-domain editions of his books suggest a writer who spent much of his life bringing literature into the classroom while continuing to write poetry of his own.