Person Detail: Charles Warren Stoddard

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General Information:
Full Name: Charles Warren Stoddard
Biography: (1843-1909) Author, poet. Charles Warren Stoddard was born in Rochester, New York. While he was still a child his parents moved to New York City, where they lived until 1855. He wrote a book of poems which were edited by Bret Harte. His best known work is "South Sea Idyls" (1873), which was inspired by his travels to Hawaii and Tahiti. His journeys to foreign, exotic places (which served as the source for much inspiration) were necessitated by his poor health. After a tour to Egypt and Palestine in 1876 and 1877, he wrote "Mashallah!" (1880) and "A Cruise Under the Crescent" (1898). Living in Hawaii from 1881 to 1884, he wrote "The Lepers of Molokai," which was believed to have prompted Robert Louis Stevenson's famous defense of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster.
Author's Timeline:
1843		Monroe County Charles Warren Stoddard was born in Rochester, New York, in 1843.
1855		New York County While he was still a child his parents moved to New York City, where they lived until 1855.
1867		(Unknown) County Poems Collection of poetry.
1873		(Unknown) County South Sea Idyls
1874		(Unknown) County Summer Cruising in the South Seas
1880		(Unknown) County Mashallah!, A Flight Into Egypt
1885		(Unknown) County The Lepers of Molokai
1885		(Unknown) County A Troubled Heart and How it was Comforted Autobiography.
1894		(Unknown) County Hawaiian Life: Being Lazy Letters From Low Latitudes
1898		(Unknown) County A Cruise Under the Crescent
1903		(Unknown) County For the Pleasure of His Company Novel.
1904		(Unknown) County The Island of Tranquil Delights
1909		(Unknown) County Charles Stoddard died in Monterey, California, in 1909.