author
Alden Charles Noble
1880–1942
A Chicago poet and writer with a taste for adventure, wit, and early twentieth-century literary culture, he is best remembered for sea-roving verse like The Buccaneer Book. He also helped found the Blue Sky Press, a small Chicago press tied to the city’s arts scene.
2 Audiobooks
White Ashes
by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy, Alden Charles Noble
The buccaneer book: Songs of the black flag
by Alden Charles Noble
About the author
Born in 1880 and dying in 1942, Alden Charles Noble was an American author and poet. Surviving library and public-domain records show a body of work that ranges from poetry to fiction, including Lyrics to the Queen, The Buccaneer Book: Songs of the Black Flag, and the novel White Ashes, which he wrote with Sidney R. Kennedy.
Noble was also part of Chicago’s little-magazine and small-press world. Archival material from the University of Arizona identifies him as one of the founders of the Blue Sky Press, established in Chicago in 1899 with Thomas Wood Stevens and Alfred G. Langworthy.
Although detailed biographical information is scarce, the work that remains suggests a lively, literary voice drawn to romance, humor, and dramatic storytelling. For modern listeners, he offers a glimpse of a distinctly early-1900s American style—spirited, imaginative, and closely connected to the independent press culture of his time.