'''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}} Poole, Ernest Poole, Ernest Poole, Ernest Poole, Ernest