Joseph Benson Gilder
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Joseph Benson Gilder (1858 - 1936) was an American editor, brother of Richard Watson Gilder and Jeannette Leonard Gilder.
He was born Flushing, New York, studied two years in the United States Naval Academy, and for some time was engaged in newspaper work in Newark, N. J. and New York City. In 1881, with his sister, he founded The Critic, of which he was coeditor until 1906 when publication of The Critic ended.
Joseph Gilder was literary advisor to the Century Company (1895-1902); helped organize the University Settlement Society of New York; in 1902-04 was United States dispatch agent at London; and in 1910-11 was editor of the New York Times "Review of Books."
He edited:
- James Russell Lowell's Impressions of Spain (1899)
- Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (1900)
- The American Idea (1902)
- Addresses of John Hay (1906)
- Essays from the Critic (1882) (with his sister)
- Authors at Home (1889)
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