Alden Charles Noble

Alden Charles Noble was an American author and poet, born in 1880 and died in 1942. Confirmed online records for him are fairly sparse, but library and public-domain sources consistently connect his name with poetry and fiction from the early 1900s.

He is best known for The Buccaneer Book: Songs of the Black Flag, a collection of poems and songs centered on pirates, the sea, and adventure. Project Gutenberg also lists Noble as co-author, with Sidney R. Kennedy, of White Ashes, showing that his published work ranged beyond verse into longer-form storytelling.

Because so little biographical detail is readily documented in the sources available here, the clearest picture comes from the work itself: energetic, romantic, and fascinated by danger, travel, and legend. For listeners who enjoy forgotten writers with a flair for dramatic mood, Noble offers a small but distinctive corner of American literary history.