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Reuben Brodie Garnett
Best known for The Twentieth Century Epic, this early-20th-century writer appears to have left behind a small but intriguing body of work. The surviving records suggest a poet with a strong interest in the moral and social questions of his time.
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The Twentieth Century Epic
by Reuben Brodie Garnett
About the author
Reuben Brodie Garnett is a little-documented author best known today for The Twentieth Century Epic, published in Boston by The Roxburgh Publishing Co. in 1914. Library and public-domain records consistently identify him as the book's author, but readily available biographical details about his life are scarce.
Because so little confirmed personal information seems to survive online, it is safest to describe him through his work. The Twentieth Century Epic has been preserved by the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg, which suggests continuing historical interest in the book even though Garnett himself remains obscure.
For listeners who enjoy rediscovered writers, that mystery is part of the appeal: Garnett stands as one of those authors known chiefly through a single surviving title, offering a glimpse of the literary concerns of the early 1900s without leaving much of a public record behind.