His Family

by Ernest Poole

Overview

His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.

Ernest Cook Poole (January 23, 1880 – January 10, 1950) was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791222491004
Publisher:	Passerino
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	257,569
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ernest Poole (1880–1950) was born in Chicago in 1880. After graduating from Princeton University he worked as a journalist and was a correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post in Europe and Russia during World War II. He is best known for his novel The Harbor (1915) but it was in 1918 that he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work His Family.