Ernest Poole

Ernest Poole ( born January 23, 1880 in Chicago, Illinois, † January 10, 1950 in Franconia, New Hampshire) is an American journalist and writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel His Family 1918 first.

Biography

Poole attended the Princeton University ( completion 1902) and worked as a social critic journalist. His first book, Child Labor: The Street (1903 ) is about child labor, the next Katharine Breshkovsky: For Russia 's Freedom (1905 ), reported by the revolutionary mood in Moscow and the Caucasus after the Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg. Poole had been sent in 1905 by the magazine Outlook to Russia in 1917 sent him the New Republic, founded in 1914 in revolutionary Russia.

The Harbor (1915 ), a socialist novel, sold 78,000 copies. His Family (1917 ), won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and was also a bestseller.

In the following years appeared alongside the novels His People (1917 ), The Avalanche ( 1924), Silent Storm (1927 ), The Car of Croesus (1930 ) and The Nancy Flyer: A Stagecoach Epic ( 1949), some books on Russia: The Dark People: Russia 's Crisis ( 1919), The Village: Russian Impressions ( 1919), Danger ( 1923), With Eastern Eyes ( 1926), The Destroyer (1931 ), Great Winds ( 1933), Nurses on Horseback ( 1933). In addition Giants Gone: Men Who Made Chicago (1943) and The Great White Hills of New Hampshire ( 1948).

A collection of short stories, was published in 1925 under the title The Little Dark Man & Other Russian Sketches. His memoirs, The Bridge: My Own Story published 1940 Poole, from 1920 until his death in 1950 member of the prestigious Dutch Treat Club in New York City..