Ida Benfey Judd

Ida Benfey, from an 1898 publication.

Ida Benfey Judd (c. 1858 – February 14, 1952) was an American educator, elocutionist and monologist, billed as "The American Storyteller".[1] She founded the Mark Twain Association, and was its first president.

  1. ^ "Miss Ida Benfey, The American Storyteller" (brochure, 1900-1910) in Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century (University of Iowa Libraries).