Nathan Haskell Dole

Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935), born at Chelsea, Massachusetts, was a man of letters. He graduated from Harvard in 1874, taught at Derby Academy in Hingham, and worked as a critic for the Philadelphia Press and as editor of the New York Epoch.

He was an active translator, edited a twenty-volume edition of Tolstoy’s works and a multivariorum edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1896), and published a volume of verse, The Hawthorne Tree, and Other Poems (1895).