Ernest Poole
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Ernest Poole (1880 - 1950) was a U.S. novelist.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois on 23 Jan 1880, and graduated from Princeton University in 1902. He worked as a journalist and was active in promoting social reforms including the ending of child labor.
He was a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post in Europe before and during World War I.
His novel The Harbor has remained the work for which he is best known. It presents a strong socialist message, set in the industrial Brooklyn waterfront. It is considered one of the first fictional works to offer a positive view of unions.
His portrait of a New York family titled His Family made him the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.
In 1917, for The New Republic magazine he went to Russia to report on the Russian Revolution.
He died in Franconia, NH on 10 Jan 1950.
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- The Voice of the Street (1906)
- The Harbor (1915)
- His Family (1917)
- The Village; Russian Impressions (1918)
- His Second Wife (1918)
- The Dark People: Russia's Crisis (1919)
- Blind; a story of these times (1920)
- Beggar's Gold (1921)
- Millions (1922)
- Danger (1923)
- The Avalanche (1924)
- The Little dark man: and other Russian sketches (1925)
- The Hunter's Moon (1925)
- With Eastern Eyes (1926)
- Silent Storms (1927)
- Car of Croesus (1930)
- Destroyer (1931)
- Nurses on horseback (1932)
- Great winds (1933)
- One of us (1934)
- Bridge; my own story (1940)
- Giants gone; men who made Chicago (1943)
- Great White hills of New Hampshire (1946)
- Nancy Flyer, a stagecoach epic (1949)
