The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

WHILE he was still in college Kenneth Roberts began to write, and he has never stopped. As editor of the Cornell Widow, he gravitated to the Boston Post. His humor as a columnist attracted the attention of Puck, and thence it was but a step up to the editorial sanctum of Life. In 1919 he became Staff Correspondent of the Saturday Evening Post. But as soon as his pen was a free lance, he returned to Maine and began the writing of those historical novels which have by now endeared him to so many Americans.