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S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
1847–1921
A leading voice teacher and educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he helped shape how speaking and expression were taught in America. He is especially remembered for developing the School of Expression in Boston, the institution that later became Curry College.
2 Audiobooks
How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions
by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
Browning and the Dramatic Monologue
by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
About the author
Born in Tennessee in 1847, Samuel Silas Curry became an American professor of elocution and vocal expression. He studied at Grant University and later at Boston University, and built his career around the idea that speaking well involved the whole person — voice, body, feeling, and thought working together.
In 1879, he and Anna Baright helped found a private school in Boston that became the School of Expression. Curry led the school for decades, wrote widely on reading, speaking, and training the voice, and became known for a teaching approach that treated expression as something natural and deeply human rather than mechanical.
His influence lasted well beyond his lifetime. Curry died in Boston in 1921, and his name lives on through Curry College in Massachusetts, which traces its origins to the school he helped build.