George William Curtis

George William Curtis (1824–1892) was an American essayist, orator and editor, born in Providence, Rhode Island. At eighteen he joined the Brook Farm community, and he later became a leading voice in social and political reform.

His early prose included "Nile Notes of a Howadji" (1851) and "The Potiphar Papers" (1853). His poem "Ebb and Flow" appears in Stedman's An American Anthology (1900).