George Franklin Babbitt

George Franklin Babbitt was an American author born in 1848 and died in 1926. Public-domain catalogs and library records identify him as the writer of Norman Prince: A Volunteer Who Died for the Cause He Loved, published in 1917.

That book tells the story of Norman Prince, one of the early American volunteers who flew for France during World War I. Babbitt's writing is rooted in biography and remembrance rather than fiction, and his best-known work reflects the public interest in wartime heroism and early aviation during the 1910s.

Very little biographical information about Babbitt himself is easy to confirm from reliable online sources, which makes him one of those authors known more through a surviving book than through a well-documented personal history. Even so, his work remains of interest to readers drawn to firsthand-era accounts of war, flight, and the people who became symbols of courage.