Poole HIS FAMILY 1917 Inscribed First Pulitzer

Title: His Family
Author: Ernest Poole
Publisher: MacMillan Company
Printing Year: 1917 Inscribed first edition

Condition/Details: Bound in dark blue cloth with bright gilt embossing, this antique volume is a scarce signed copy of the author's third novel, the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Encarta Encyclopedia has the following entry: "Poole was born in Chicago. He graduated from Princeton University in 1902, and then moved to New York City. There, he spent three years observing tenement life. During this time Poole wrote magazine articles that spurred reforms in child labor laws and tenement living conditions and that led to an antituberculosis campaign. For his work he gained recognition as a journalist dedicated to social reform. Later, while working as a correspondent in Russia for the magazine The Outlook, he became active in the labor movement, and his political views moved toward socialism.Poole's first novel, "The Voice of the Street" (1906), is about a boy who overcomes his impoverished circumstances to become a great singer. Poole subsequently began writing plays, although only three were produced and none was successful. At the beginning of World War I (1914-1918), he worked as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post. He then returned to New York for the publication of his most successful novel, "The Harbor" (1915). In the book the harbor, a place of danger and vice, serves as a symbol of the workaday world. Poole's next novel, "His Family", addresses changing social standards in a prominent New York family. A middle-aged father struggles to understand that his three daughters must make their way in a world of social mobility, not the socially stratified world of his youth. In 1917 Poole traveled to Russia to cover the Russian Revolution for The Saturday Evening Post. Drawing on his observations, he wrote a series of sketches on Russian peasantry that were collected in two 1918 books, "The Village: Russian Impressions" and "The Dark People: Russia's Crisis". Poole's later works included an autobiography, "The Bridge" (1940), and "The Great White Hills of New Hampshire" (1946), about the state where he spent his later years". The inscription label pasted on the dedication page reads: ""Young men are lucky. They will see great things." Ernest Post." The volume shows external age/wear, with a cracked front hinge. Pages are clean and bright. Previous owner's Christmas tag is pasted to front endpaper. The book measures approximately 5.5" x 7.75" and contains 320 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50