author
Edward Hungerford
1875–1948
A lively early-20th-century journalist and author, he became one of America's best-known writers on railroads, travel, and the changing shape of modern life. His books mix practical know-how with a real affection for movement, industry, and big American stories.
7 Audiobooks
The Personality of American Cities
by Edward Hungerford
With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort
by Edward Hungerford
The Modern Railroad
by Edward Hungerford
The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad
by Edward Hungerford
The Romance of a Great Store
by Edward Hungerford
Our Railroads To-Morrow
by Edward Hungerford
The Railroad Problem
by Edward Hungerford
About the author
Born in New York in 1875, Edward Hungerford built his career as a journalist before becoming widely known as an author. He wrote on several subjects, but railroads were his special field, and he was remembered as a keen observer of American transportation and travel.
He traveled extensively by rail and turned that experience into books and articles that explained trains, railway history, and large public systems to general readers in a clear, approachable way. His work helped make complicated subjects feel vivid and understandable, which is part of why his writing still appeals to readers interested in the energy of early modern America.
Hungerford died on July 29, 1948. Alongside his railroad writing, he also published books on cities, travel, war, and public life, leaving behind a body of work that captures both the machinery and the mood of his era.