Kenneth Roberts

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Kenneth Lewis Roberts (December 8, 1885 – July 21, 1957) was an American author of carefully researched historical novels. Born in Kennebunk, Roberts wrote novels about Maine or characters from Maine including:

• Northwest Passage - French and Indian War
• Arundel
• The Lively Lady
• Rabble in Arms - American Revolution; sequel to Arundel
• Captain Caution
• Oliver Wiswell - American Revolution from the loyalist perspective
• Boon Island*

Roberts described his life in detail in his autobiography I Wanted to Write.

In 1957 he received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation "for his historical novels which have long contributed to the creation of greater interest in our early American history."

See also

• "Kenneth Roberts," Dictionary of Literary Biography 9:313-318. (1981).
• Janet Harris, A Century of American History in Fiction: Kenneth Roberts' Novels, 1976.