Gamaliel Bradford VI (October 9, 1863 – April 11, 1932)[1] was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist.

The couple would go on to have two children: Gamaliel Bradford VII (18 June 1888–8 August 1910), a Harvard graduate and Boston banker for Norman Wait Harris who died at 22 from suicide at the Kendall Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shooting himself after a young woman who was engaged refused to marry him instead;[3] and Sarah Rice Bradford (1 July 1892–September 1972).

"[8] He is acknowledged as the American pioneer of the psychographic form of written biographies, after the style developed by Lytton Strachey.

[9] Despite suffering poor health during most of his life, Bradford wrote 114 biographies over a period of 20 years.

He was friends with fellow Harvard University graduate and poet, George Faunce Whitcomb, as he inscribed the book, Jewels of Romance with the words: "To Gamaliel Bradford with deepest gratitude, George Faunce Whitcomb, Easter 1930, Brookline, Massachusetts".