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Hoffman, Charles Fenno (1806–1884)| US writer and journalist who served as editor of several prominent magazines. For several years in the 1840s he also held various US government jobs in New York City. He wrote poetry, but is best known for Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk 1839, a novel based on a Kentucky murder. |
| It was reported that he became insane after a servant used his most recent manuscript to light the fires in his lodgings; in any case he was committed to the State Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1850 and spent the rest of his life institutionalized. |
| Hoffman was born in New York City. He lost his right leg in an accident (c. 1817), studied law at Columbia 1821–24 (although he never seriously practised law), became an avid sportsman, and made a long journey by horseback in the Northwest Territory in1833. |
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