Albert Hale Plumb

Albert Hale Plumb was an American writer born in 1863. The clearest widely available records connected with his authorship identify him as the author of William Bradford of Plymouth, a historical biography published in Boston in 1920 and later preserved by the Library of Congress and Project Gutenberg.

Available catalog and archival records suggest he lived a long life, with Yale archival authority data listing him as 1863–1961. Beyond that, reliable biographical detail appears limited in easily accessible sources, so much of his personal story remains faint compared with the historical figures he wrote about.

That scarcity makes his surviving work stand out. Readers who come to Plumb today are usually meeting him through his compact portrait of Bradford, one of the key figures of early colonial New England.