author
Joseph Husband
1885–1938
An American writer who turned work, industry, and public life into vivid nonfiction, he is best known for first-hand books such as A Year in a Coal-Mine and A Year in the Navy. His writing often brings readers close to the people and machines that shaped early 20th-century America.
3 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
The Story of the Pullman Car
by Joseph Husband
About the author
Born in Rochester, New York, on July 25, 1885, Joseph Husband was educated at St. Mark’s School and graduated from Harvard in 1908. He went on to build a career as an author whose books explored American industry, labor, and transportation in a direct, accessible way.
His best-known works include A Year in a Coal-Mine, A Year in the Navy, America at Work, and The Story of the Pullman Car. Across these books, he showed a strong interest in how large systems actually worked and in the daily lives of the people inside them, which gives his nonfiction an immediate, ground-level feel.
During World War I, he also served in the United States Naval Reserve Force, becoming an ensign in 1918. He died on September 21, 1938. Even now, his books remain appealing for readers interested in the human side of industrial and working life in America.