author
Frederick Palmer
1873–1958
A globe-trotting war correspondent who turned firsthand reporting into vivid history, adventure, and fiction, he wrote with the pace of someone who had actually been there. His books draw on decades spent near the front lines of some of the defining conflicts of his era.
7 Audiobooks
Over the Pass
by Frederick Palmer
The Last Shot
by Frederick Palmer
My Second Year of the War
by Frederick Palmer
My Year of the Great War
by Frederick Palmer
The Old Blood
by Frederick Palmer
Our Greatest Battle (The Meuse-Argonne)
by Frederick Palmer
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania in 1873, Frederick Palmer built a long career as an American journalist and writer after studying at Allegheny College. He was hired by the New York Press as a London correspondent in the 1890s, and that assignment grew into decades of reporting abroad.
Palmer became especially well known as a war correspondent. He reported on conflicts beginning in the late 1890s and reached his widest fame during World War I, later continuing to write about military affairs in both journalism and books. Alongside his reporting, he published novels, biographies, and other nonfiction, bringing a reporter’s eye for detail to a wide range of subjects.
He died in 1958. For listeners, his work offers the perspective of a writer who moved between literature and frontline observation, combining storytelling with the immediacy of lived experience.