Joseph C. Lincoln
(1870-1944)
Joseph Crosby Lincoln was an American fictionist whose works immortalize the life and people of Cape Cod. What Rudyard Kipling is to India, and Robert Service is to the Yukon, Joseph C. Lincoln is to "The Cape." Many of his stories are equal to the best of W.W. Jacobs, and he topped that writer in sales and popularity-- at least in the U.S. His first book was Cape Cod Ballads (1902), and was the only volume of verse he produced. If he had continued in that vein, he might have become one of the great American balladeers. However, his real success was in prose, and came with the publication of Cap'n Eri (1904), a humorous novel about three old sea captains forced to advertise for a wife. This enabled him to quit his job and dedicate himself to full-time writing. Lincoln writes in a simple literary style, and his characters are vivid and true-to-life. Much of his work is genuinely humorous, and still highly readable. Lincoln worked from 9 A.M. till noon, and wrote on sheets of yellow paper with a stubby pencil. He had a summer home in Cape Cod, but spent most of his life in Hackensack, New Jersey and Villa Nova, Pennsylvania. He died at his home in Winter Park, Florida.
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Bibliography:
11351 Cape
Cod Ballads [p|1902]
3240
Cap'n Eri [f|1904]
Mr Pratt [f|1906]
5195 The
'Old Home House' (aka: Cape Cod Stories) [s|1907]
3281 Cy
Whittaker's Place [f|1908]
2068
Keziah Coffin [f|1909]
Our Village [f|1909]
2307,H The
Depot Master [1910]
3280
Cap'n Warren's Wards [f|c1911]
2372 The
Woman-Haters [f|c1911]
3137 The
Rise Of Roscoe Paine [f|1912]
The Postmaster [f|1912]
5980 Kent
Knowles [f|1914]
6718
Cap'n Dan's Daughter [f|1914]
2473 Mary-'Gusta
[f|1916]
2552
Thankful's Inheritance [f|1918]
2452 Shavings
[f|1918]
3263,H The
Portygee [f|1920]
4905
Galusha The Magnificent [f|1921]
Fair Harbor [f|1922]
Doctor Nye Of North Ostable [1923]
# Rugged
Water [f|1924]
# Queer
Judson [f|1925]
# The
Aristocratic Miss Brewster [f|1927]
# Silas
Bradford's Boy [f|1928]
Blairs Inn (w Freeman LINCOLN) [1929]
All Alongshore [1931]
The Ownley Inn (w Freeman LINCOLN) [1939]
Bradshaws Of Harness [f|1943]
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