'''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 he is most well-known for. 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.
==Bibliography==
*''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)
==External link==
* {{gutenberg author| id=Ernest+Poole | name=Ernest Poole}}
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