Robert Cortes Holliday

[1] He was born on July 18, 1880, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League and worked briefly as an illustrator for periodicals.

After he left The Bookman in 1923, Holliday continued his criticism, worked for brief stints in advertising, and in 1926 became an instructor on writing for publication.

[1] Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric."

Sometime between 1920 and 1925, Robert Holliday signed The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door, an autograph book of 242 bohemians.

The door is now held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and his signature can be found on front panel 2.