Samuel McChord Crothers

Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857–November 1927) was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.

Crothers graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey (later Princeton University). After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian church in 1882.

Crothers died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected bibliography

 * The Understanding Heart (1903)
 * The Gentle Reader (1903)
 * The Pardoner's Wallet (1905)
 * By the Christmas Fire (1908)
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Autocrat and His Fellow-Boarders (1909)
 * Among Friends (1910)
 * Humanly Speaking (1912)
 * Meditations on Votes for Women, etc. (1914): "A contribution to the...literature of feminism" that asks women to be "as modest and unobtrusive as men in expressing their opinions"
 * "A Literary Clinic", The Atlantic Monthly, Vol.118, No.3, (September 1916), pp. 291–301 (he coined the term "bibliotherapy" in this article).
 * The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord (1916)
 * The Dame School of Experience (1920)
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson: How to Know Him (1921)
 * The Cheerful Giver (1923)
 * The Children of Dickens (1925)