Philip Gengembre Hubert

Born in 1852, Philip Gengembre Hubert was an American author, editor, and journalist whose writing crossed several worlds at once. Records from the Library of Congress and digitized editions of his books show him contributing to magazine-style collections, publishing nonfiction, and writing under the name P. G. Hubert Jr.

His books and contributions suggest a wide curiosity about modern life in the decades around 1900. He wrote about athletic and outdoor subjects, including bicycling, and also produced more institutional and historical work, such as a volume on the Merchants' National Bank of the City of New York.

Hubert died in 1925. What stands out most now is the range of his interests: he was the kind of writer who could treat technology, leisure, and public life as parts of the same fast-changing modern world.