American novelist Kenneth Roberts was born in Kennebunk, Maine, in 1885. He received his higher education at Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1908. From 1907-18 he was on the staff of the "Boston Post" newspaper, first as a columnist and then, when his column proved extremely popular, he was given his own page. In 1918 he joined the ...
American writer of meticulously-researched historical novels covering the American colonial and revolutionary period. He is best known for "North West Passage" (1937) and "Lydia Bailey" (1947).
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fury River
1961
novel "Northwest Passage"
Mission of Danger
1960
novel "Northwest Passage"
Frontier Rangers
1959
novel
Northwest Passage
TV Series novel - 23 episodes, 1958 - 1959 writer - 1 episode, 1958
Lydia Bailey
1952
novel "Lydia Bailey"
Captain Caution
1940
novel "Captain Caution"
Northwest Passage
1940
based on the novel by
The Shell Game
1918
story "Good Will and Almond Shells" - as Kenneth L. Roberts