Ernest Poole is the author of our first book "His Family". There really isn't much information about him, most places that I found that talked about him all said pretty much the same thing. He was born in Chicago in 1880. He graduated from Princeton University and was a journalist. One thing he was known for was being active in social reforms which included the ending of child labor. In the book "His Family" one of the main characters was very active in social reform herself, she worked diligently to help out the children of immigrants and those less fortunate to get a good education.
He was also a World War I correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, where he was stationed in Europe. He was also very active in the Russian Revolution and many of his later novels were about Russia and the life there.
During his life he had 24 novels published. He also founded the Foreign Press Service that negotiated for foreign authors with English-language publishers.
Ernest Poole died in New Hampshire in the year 1950.
Next Monday I will post my review of his Pulitzer Prize winning novel "His Family".
source: Wikipedia.org
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