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Robert Grant
1852–1940
A Boston judge who also became a popular novelist, he wrote sharp, readable stories about American society and the manners of the well-to-do. His fiction mixed satire with a close look at the social pressures of his time.
10 Audiobooks
The King's Men: A Tale of To-morrow
by Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, Frederic Jesup Stimson, John T. (John Tyler) Wheelwright
The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
by Robert Grant
The Undercurrent
by Robert Grant
Search-Light Letters
by Robert Grant
Unleavened Bread
by Robert Grant
The Orchid
by Robert Grant
The Opinions of a Philosopher
by Robert Grant
The Art of Living
by Robert Grant
A Romantic Young Lady
by Robert Grant
Jack Hall : or, The school days of an American boy
by Robert Grant
About the author
Born in Boston on January 24, 1852, Robert Grant built an unusual career in both law and literature. He studied at Harvard, practiced law in Boston, and later served as judge of the Probate Court of Suffolk County, while also publishing novels, short stories, and essays.
Grant became known for fiction that observed and gently mocked upper-class New England life. His best-known work is often noted as Unleavened Bread (1900), and across his writing he returned to questions of ambition, marriage, status, and morality in American society.
He remained active in public life as well as literary life, and near the end of his career he was involved in the review of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. He died on May 19, 1940, leaving behind a body of work that offers a lively window into Boston culture and social values in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.