George Rice Carpenter (October 25, 1863 – April 8, 1909) was an American educator, scholar and writer.

His father was a Congregational minister who left an account of the final days of the Civil War and was an eyewitness of Abraham Lincoln's entry into Petersburg, Virginia.

[1] George Rice Carpenter was born at the Eskimo River Mission Station on the Labrador Coast where his parents were engaged in pioneer missionary service.

[2] After attending Phillips Academy, Andover, Carpenter entered Harvard where he graduated in 1886.

Carpenter then became a professor and chairman of English rhetoric at Columbia University in New York where he remained for the duration of his life.