author
Frederick Palmer
1873–1958
A globe-trotting journalist who turned front-line experience into vivid books, he spent decades reporting on wars and political upheaval around the world. His writing blends eyewitness detail with the pace of adventure fiction.
8 Audiobooks
The Last Shot
by Frederick Palmer
Over the Pass
by Frederick Palmer
My Year of the Great War
by Frederick Palmer
My Second Year of the War
by Frederick Palmer
The Old Blood
by Frederick Palmer
Our Greatest Battle (The Meuse-Argonne)
by Frederick Palmer
In the Klondyke : including an account of a winter's journey to Dawson
by Frederick Palmer
About the author
Born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, in 1873, he studied at Allegheny College and went on to build a long career as a journalist and author. The New York Press hired him as its London correspondent in 1895, and that assignment grew into decades of reporting from overseas.
He became especially known as a war correspondent, covering conflicts from the Greco-Turkish War through the Russo-Japanese War and both World Wars. Alongside his journalism, he wrote novels, biographies, and nonfiction, often drawing on the people, places, and military events he had witnessed firsthand.
His career lasted roughly half a century, and he was widely recognized for bringing distant events to American readers with clarity and drama. He died in 1958, leaving behind a body of work shaped by travel, conflict reporting, and a storyteller’s eye for detail.