Ernest Poole ( Eng. Ernest Poole , January 23, 1880 , Chicago , USA - January 10, 1950 , New York , USA) - American writer and publicist. Pulitzer Prize winner.
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| Ernest poole | |
| Date of Birth | January 23, 1880 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago |
| Date of death | January 10, 1950 (69 years) |
| Place of death | New York |
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Biography
Born January 23, 1880 in Chicago. In 1901 he graduated from Princeton University . As a journalist, advocated the abolition of child labor. He helped Upton Sinclair in collecting materials for his novel "The Jungle". Supported the socialist movement. In 1905 he traveled to Russia, where he witnessed the first Russian revolution. In 1906 he wrote his first novel, The Voice of the Street . During the First World War he was a war correspondent for the American magazine The Saturday Evening Post . In the summer of 1917, he visited Russia again, after which he wrote the books The Dark People ( The Dark People , 1918) and The Village ( The Village , 1918).
In 1918 he wrote the novel “His Family” ( His Family ), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize .
Works
- 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)