Ezra Baldwin Strong

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Ezra Baldwin Strong

1805–1846

Best known for a vivid 1830s book about pirates, this early American writer also worked as a map publisher and compiler. His surviving works capture a lively mix of popular history, adventure, and practical publishing.

1 Audiobook

The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835

The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835

by Ezra Baldwin Strong

About the author

Born in 1805 and dying in 1846, Ezra Baldwin Strong was an American writer and publisher whose work survives mainly through nineteenth-century print culture. Library and catalog records connect him with both books and maps, showing that he was active not just as an author but also in publishing and cartographic work.

He is best known today for The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions, a sensational nonfiction collection that helped preserve popular stories about piracy for later readers. Modern library listings and audiobook catalogs continue to identify him with that title, which remains his most widely circulated work.

Records also show Strong associated with map publishing in the 1830s, including material related to the United States and the Midwest. That combination of historical storytelling and practical publishing makes him an interesting example of a writer from the early American book trade, even if many personal details about his life are now hard to confirm.