Charles de Kay

Charles de Kay (1848-1935) was an American writer, critic and diplomat. Born in Washington, D.C., the son of the naval officer George Coleman de Kay, he graduated from Yale in 1868 and spent eighteen years, from 1876 to 1894, as literary and art critic of the New York Times. He helped found the Authors Club, the National Sculpture Society, the Fencers Club and, in 1898, the National Arts Club. He published poetry and prose under his own name and the pen names Henry Eckford and Louis Barnaval, among them The Bohemian (1878), Hesperus (1880) and Bird Gods (1898), and he wrote on the sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye and on Louis Comfort Tiffany. From 1894 he was United States consul general in Berlin. He translated Romain Rolland's Pierre and Luce, published by Henry Holt in 1922.