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Charles Boardman Hawes

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Charles Boardman Hawes

別名: Charles Hawes

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1889-01-24 （Clifton Springs, New York, U.S.）
死没
1923-07-16 （Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.） 34歳
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Bangor, Maine (raised) → Cambridge, Massachusetts (residence/work) → Springfield, Massachusetts (place of death)

経歴

職業
Writer, Editor
活動期間
1911年〜1923年
影響を受けた人物
Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Herman Melville

学歴

Bowdoin College
期間: 1907–1911
卒業年: 1911
国: United States
Edited The Quill and studied the classics while at Bowdoin.
Harvard University
期間: 1911–1912（大学院生として1年間在学）
国: United States
Graduate student for one year; degree not recorded.

受賞歴

Newbery Medal
1924
対象作品: The Dark Frigate
主催: American Library Association (ALSC)
結果: winner
Newbery Medal (runner-up/nomination)
1922
対象作品: The Great Quest
主催: American Library Association (ALSC)
結果: runner-up
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (selection)
1962
対象作品: The Dark Frigate
主催: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award committee
結果: selected

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Mutineers

1919年 Fiction (sea adventure)

A sea-adventure novel set in the Far East, framed as the account of Benjamin Lathrop written some sixty years earlier.

SeaAdventureVoyage

The Great Quest

1921年 Fiction (adventure)

A romance of 1826 recounting the experiences of Josiah Woods and his companions on voyages to Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea; was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal.

AdventureSeafaringFriendship

Gloucester, by Land and Sea

1923年 Nonfiction (local history) 226ページ

A historical account of the New England seacoast town of Gloucester, collecting maritime history and local culture.

Local historyMaritime history

The Dark Frigate

1923年 Historical novel (children's literature)

A 17th-century sea adventure telling the story of Philip Marsham, his trials at sea and on land, including events in England and Barbados; published posthumously and awarded the Newbery Medal.

Coming-of-agePiracy and seafaringLoyalty and loss

Whaling

1924年 Nonfiction (history/industry) 358ページ

A history of the whaling industry, completed and published by his wife after his death.

Whaling historySocial history

The Story of the Ship "Globe" of Nantucket

1923年 Nonfiction (article)

An article in The Atlantic Monthly recounting the history of the Nantucket ship 'Globe'.

Ship historyWhaling

A Boy Who Went Whaling

1924年 Nonfiction (short piece)

A short piece in The Atlantic Monthly describing a boy's experience going whaling.

WhalingComing-of-age

全著作

  • The Mutineers
  • The Great Quest
  • Gloucester, by Land and Sea
  • The Dark Frigate
  • Whaling
  • The Story of the Ship "Globe" of Nantucket
  • A Boy Who Went Whaling

作風・主題

文体
Evocative, period-tinged sea storytellingRealistic maritime description with 18th-century stylistic influences
頻出モチーフ
The sea and voyagesSailors and piracyComing-of-age and loss

健康

  • Pneumonic meningitis
    1923
    Sudden onset in 1923 led to his death; subsequent works were published posthumously or completed by his wife.

評価・遺産

Known for historical sea adventures, he posthumously won the Newbery Medal for The Dark Frigate. His work influenced maritime history writing and children's adventure literature and led to the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest.

資料所蔵先

  • Library of Congress catalog records
  • Bowdoin College archival holdings (possible material)

引用

  • His adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville.
    出典: The New York Times review (1925) on the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest (1925年)

豆知識

  • Considered the first U.S.-born winner of the Newbery Medal (The Dark Frigate, Newbery 1924).
  • Some works were published posthumously or completed by his wife (e.g., Whaling).
  • Atlantic Monthly Press established the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in his memory.