Maurice Francis Egan

Maurice Francis Egan (1852-1924) was an American writer, critic and diplomat, born in Philadelphia and died in Brooklyn. He made his name as a Catholic journalist and literary critic before teaching English literature at the University of Notre Dame from 1888 and at the Catholic University of America from 1896. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him United States Minister to Denmark in 1907, a post he held for a decade and recounted in Ten Years Near the German Frontier (1919). He wrote novels, verse, essays and, with John B. Kennedy, the two-volume history The Knights of Columbus in Peace and War (1920). His memoir Recollections of a Happy Life appeared in the year of his death.