William Holmes McGuffey Biography

William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was a college professor president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks. An estimated 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960[citation needed], placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.