Robert Cortes Holliday

Born in 1880, Robert Cortes Holliday was an American writer and literary editor. He built a career that linked creative writing with editorial work, and he became known for essays and books including Walking-Stick Papers.

Holliday also worked closely with the publishing and magazine world, which helped shape his sharp but readable style. That background gave his writing an informed, insider's view of authorship, criticism, and literary culture.

He died in 1947. Today he is remembered as a figure from early twentieth-century American letters whose work reflects both a love of writing itself and a clear-eyed sense of how books reach readers.