Charles Monroe Dickinson (November 15, 1842 - July 3, 1924) was an American author, journalist, and diplomat.

The son of Richard and Bessie (Rea) Dickinson, he was descended from a distinguished family prominent in the early colonial history of America. Dickinson was educated at the Fairfield and Lowville Academies, and, immediately after leaving school, accepted a teaching position in Haverstraw-on-the-Hudson, which he held until 1864. In that year he went to Binghamton, New York, to study law with the Honorable Daniel S. Dickinson.

Mr. Dickinson practiced law in Binghamton and New York City until 1878, when he became manager and editor of the Binghamton “Republic.” The newspaper was highly successful, and in 1880 he became its sole proprietor. He was involved in the creation of the current Associated Press in 1892. Throughout this period, Mr. Dickinson became increasingly interested in the writing of poetry, and, in 1889, his book of poems, “The Children and Other Verses,” was published. The title poem was one which he had written at the age of nineteen while teaching in a little county school at Haverstraw. It became famous, finding its way into many school texts of the period.

Dickinson's newspaper career led to an interest in politics, and in 1897 he was appointed the U.S. Consul-General to Turkey and, in 1901, diplomatic agent to Bulgaria. In this latter capacity, he contended successfully with the serious disturbance which arose when an American missionary, Miss Ellen M. Stone, was kidnapped and subsequently ransomed. In 1906, Mr. Dickinson was made a member of the board to draft regulations for the American Consular Service, being appointed American Consul-General at Large in that same year. Dickinson resigned his diplomatic post in October, 1907.

In March 1867, Charles M. Dickinson married Bessie Virginia Hotchkiss, the only daughter of Giles M. Hotchkiss, an attorney in Binghamton. They later had two sons, Charles H. and Giles H., and adopted a daughter, Mary A. Mason, a writer. Bessie Virginia Hotchkiss Dickinson died in April 1908. On February 2, 1910, Dickinson married Alice Bond Minard (July 29, 1882 - January 20, 1968), daughter of Elias G. and Mary Adriance Minard of Poughkeepsie, New York.

Charles Dickinson died in 1924.