author
W. C. (William Curtis) Gibson
b. 1857
Best remembered for co-writing two humorous temperance-era books with Bert Leston Taylor, this late-19th-century American writer left a small but distinctive mark in comic literature. Reliable public sources about his life are scarce, which makes his surviving work stand out even more.
1 Audiobook
The Log of the Water Wagon; or, The Cruise of the Good Ship "Lithia"
by Bert Leston Taylor, W. C. (William Curtis) Gibson
About the author
Project Gutenberg lists W. C. (William Curtis) Gibson as the author of The Log of the Water Wagon; or, The Cruise of the Good Ship "Lithia", a comic work created with Bert Leston Taylor. Archive records also connect him with Extra Dry: Being Further Adventures of the Water Wagon, showing that the pair collaborated on more than one satirical book.
Beyond those publications, firmly confirmed biographical details are limited in the sources I could verify. A memorial record identifies William Curtis Gibson as having lived from 1857 to 1935, but detailed information about his career, education, or personal life was not readily available from stronger literary reference sources.
That leaves Gibson as one of those authors known mainly through the books themselves: witty, period pieces tied to the humor and social commentary of the temperance movement, and remembered today because those works have been preserved in digital libraries.