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George Fox Tucker
1852–1929
A Massachusetts lawyer and writer with deep Quaker roots, he moved easily between fiction, legal writing, and public affairs. His work ranges from the novel A Quaker Home to studies of international law and the Monroe Doctrine.
2 Audiobooks
International Law
by George Grafton Wilson, George Fox Tucker
The Boy Whaleman
by George Fox Tucker
About the author
Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1852, George Fox Tucker was educated at Friends schools and graduated from Brown University in 1873. Biographical notices from the period describe him as both a lawyer and an author, a combination that shaped the wide range of books he produced.
Tucker wrote in several very different modes. He is remembered for A Quaker Home, a novel connected with Quaker life in New Bedford, and he also published legal and public-affairs works including The Monroe Doctrine and, with George Grafton Wilson, International Law. That mix of storytelling and serious legal scholarship gives his writing a distinctive place among late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American authors.
He died in 1929. Although he is not widely known today, his books still attract readers interested in Quaker history, maritime New England, and the legal ideas that shaped America's place in the world.