author
Waldron Kintzing Post
1868–1955
A New York lawyer and fiction writer, he is best remembered for lively stories of Harvard student life and for a historical novel set in the old Navy. His work has the feel of late-19th-century magazine storytelling: brisk, social, and full of period detail.
1 Audiobook
Harvard Stories: Sketches of the Undergraduate
by Waldron Kintzing Post
About the author
Born in New York City in 1868, Waldron Kintzing Post studied at Harvard and later earned a law degree from Columbia before being admitted to the bar in the 1890s. Alongside his legal career, he wrote fiction, including Harvard Stories (1893), a collection centered on undergraduate life, and Smith Brunt (1899), a longer story with a naval setting.
Post's writing offers a window into the tastes of his era: polished, anecdotal, and interested in character, camaraderie, and institutions such as Harvard and the U.S. Navy. Modern readers are most likely to encounter him through digitized editions of his books, which have helped preserve a small but distinctive body of work.
He died in 1955. While not widely known today, he remains an appealing author for listeners who enjoy rediscovered American fiction from the turn of the 20th century.