Elbert Green Hubbard (American, 1856-1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, entrepreneur, and philosopher who was the founder of the reformist Roycroft community and influential exponent of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Often criticized for his capitalist approach he self-described as an anarchist and socialist and drew heavily from the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Both he and Alice Moore Hubbard, his wife and noted suffragist, died aboard the RMS Lusitania which was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans on May 7, 1915. Many of their aphorisms have become part of our spoken language. (Reference: Roycroft)/(Wikipedia: Elbert Hubbard; Roycroft; Arts and Crafts movement)
