Kenneth Roberts

Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) was an American author of carefully researched historical novels. 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
• Captain Caution
• Oliver Wiswell* American Revolution from the loyalist perspective

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

See also

• "Kenneth Roberts," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 9, Novelists 1910-1945 (1981).
• Janet Harris, A Century of American History in Fiction: Kenneth Roberts' Novels, 1976.