Rollin Lynde Hartt

American journalist

Rollin Lynde Hartt (1869–1946) was an early 20th-century journalist and congregational minister. His reporting and views on the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy were known nationally and mentioned in Time Magazine.^[1] His 1909 articles People at Play appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and are considered an important exception to a near-quarantine on information about then-current popular culture.^[2]

He was educated at Williams College (B.A., 1892) and Andover Theological Seminary (1896), serving in pastorates in Montana and Massachusetts.

Selected publications

The Man himself 1924
"Scopes Trial: What Lies Beyond Dayton" July 22, 1925 The Nation
"I'd Like to Show You Harlem!". The Independent. April, 1921. p. 334-.
Confessions of a Clergyman. Rollin Lynde Hartt. McBride, Nast & company, 1915.
The People at Play. Rollin Lynde Hartt. Houghton Mifflin, 1909.
Understanding the French. Rollin Lynde Hartt. McBride, Nast & Company, 1914.