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Ernest Poole

アーネスト・プール

Ānesuto Pūru

Aliases: Ernest Cook Poole

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1880-01-23 （Chicago, Illinois）
Died
1950-01-10 （New York City） age 69
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Chicago, Illinois → Lake Forest, Illinois → Princeton, New Jersey → Lower East Side, New York City → Greenwich Village, New York City → White Mountains, New Hampshire

Career

Occupations
journalist, novelist, playwright
Active Years
1902-1950
Affiliations
University Settlement House
Memberships
Socialist Party of America, Intercollegiate Socialist Society
Influenced By
Jacob Riis, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev
Influenced
Upton Sinclair

Education

Princeton University
Political Science
Degree: BA
Period: 1898-1902
Year of Graduation: 1902
Country: United States
cum laude

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1918
Work: His Family
Organization: Columbia University
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Harbor

1915 Novel

Story of a boy growing up near New York Harbor, depicting labor issues and social reform.

working classsocial reformurban life

His Family

1917 Novel

Depicts intergenerational conflict in a New York family.

familyintergenerational conflictwomen's roles

Bibliography

  • The Voice of the Street
  • Katherine Breshkovsky: 'For Russia's Freedom'
  • The Harbor
  • His Family
  • 'The Dark People': Russia's Crisis
  • The Village: Russian Impressions
  • His Second Wife
  • Blind: A Story of These Times
  • Beggar's Gold
  • Millions
  • Danger
  • The Avalanche
  • The Little Dark Man and Other Russian Sketches
  • The Hunter's Moon
  • With Eastern Eyes
  • Silent Storms
  • Car of Croesus
  • The Destroyer
  • Nurses on Horseback
  • Great Winds
  • One of Us
  • The Bridge: My Own Story
  • Giants Gone: Men Who Made Chicago
  • The Great White Hills of New Hampshire
  • Nancy Flyer: A Stagecoach Epic

Style & Themes

Literary Style
realisticsocial realistmuckraker style
Recurring Motifs
proletarian themesRussian Revolutionfamily dynamicsurban poverty

Health

  • Tuberculosis
    1905頃
    Feverish during investigation, recuperated in Lake Forest.
  • Pneumonia
    1950
    Cause of death.

Legacy

Known as the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, contributed through reportage on Russian Revolution and proletarian fiction.

Trivia

  • Studied political science under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton.
  • Covered the 1905 Russian Revolution.
  • Member of the Socialist Party of America.