Author · United States · 1880–1950
Ernest Poole
Labor, family, and city life seen with reforming sympathy and narrative grace.
Ernest Cook Poole was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s.
Genres
Historical fiction
Work, home, and hope in 2026
Ernest Poole writes work and home together. Streets, unions, and kitchens shape hope and duty, and the tone respects complexity. Read him to connect compassion with policy and to feel how fiction can make public life personal without turning it into slogan.
