Charles Francis Horne was a prolific American author who lived from 1870 to 1942. His main area of expertise was history, and he wrote or edited over a hundred books, many of them multi-volume works. He even served as a professor of English at the City College of New York.
Some of his most notable works include:
- The Code of Hammurabi, a translation of the ancient Mesopotamian legal code.
- Great Men and Famous Women
- The Bible and Its Story, Taught By One Thousand Picture Lessons (a 10-volume series)
- Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (a 14-volume series)
- The Great Events by Famous Historians
