author
Claude Moore Fuess
1885–1963
A longtime Phillips Academy educator who also became one of its most influential leaders, he wrote lively biographies and histories rooted in American public life. His work reflects both a schoolmaster’s eye for character and a historian’s feel for the past.
1 Audiobook
Lord Byron as a satirist in verse
by Claude Moore Fuess
About the author
Born in Waterville, New York, in 1885, Claude Moore Fuess was an American author, historian, and educator. He studied at Amherst College and later earned graduate degrees at Columbia before beginning a long career at Phillips Academy in Andover, where he taught English and eventually became the school's 10th headmaster.
Fuess led Phillips Academy from 1933 to 1948, guiding the school through the years of the Great Depression and World War II. Alongside his work in education, he wrote extensively, producing biographies and historical studies that helped keep major American figures and institutions vivid for general readers.
He is especially remembered for combining scholarship with an accessible, readable style. For audiobook listeners, his background is part of the appeal: his books were written by someone equally at home in the classroom, the archive, and the art of telling a life story clearly.