author
Waldron Kintzing Post
1868–1955
Best remembered for lively stories of student life, this late-19th-century American writer captured Harvard with humor, warmth, and an eye for everyday detail. His fiction offers a small but vivid window into campus culture and old New York society.
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 was an American writer whose best-known work, Harvard Stories: Sketches of the Undergraduate, was published in 1893. Contemporary coverage linked the book to his Harvard background and noted that he had also written the 1890 Hasty Pudding play Helen and Paris.
His writing focused on character, conversation, and the social world around him rather than grand adventure. Harvard Stories remains his most visible book today, while Smith Brunt: A Story of the Old Navy shows his interest in historical and naval themes as well.
Post died in 1955. Beyond his books, surviving records connect him with New York and Bayport, Long Island, where he was active in community life, including volunteer fire service. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found in the sources reviewed during this search.