Ernest Cook Poole
Born: 1880 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: 1950 in New York City Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Poole lived in Chicago until 1902 when he moved to New York to write. Biography: Ernest Poole was a novelist, journalist and playwright. He graduated from Princeton University in 1902. After that, he worked as a journalist and campaigned for social reforms including an end to child labour. His first novel, The Voice of the Street, was published in 1906. On the outbreak of the First World War Poole worked as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post. His novel about trade unions, The Harbour, was published in 1915. Two years later, his book, His Family, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1917, for The New Republic magazine he went to Russia to report on the Russian Revolution. After the war, Poole, Paul Kennaday, and Arthur Livingston founded an agency, the Foreign Press Service, that negotiated for foreign authors with English-language publishers.
Awards:
- -- Pulitzer Prize, ''His Family''
Selected Titles
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Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics ISBN: 0028658310 OCLC: 58468370 Macmillan Reference USA, Detroit, MI : ©2005. This encyclopedia considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the social, ethical, and political issues raised by science and technology. |
| His family. ISBN: 1470056313 OCLC: 1037352492 Unknown Unknown : |
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Nurses on horseback / ISBN: 1443726397 OCLC: 467298427 [Jackson Press], [LaVergne, TN] : [2008?] |