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Joseph Husband
1885–1938
An American journalist and nonfiction writer, he turned firsthand reporting into vivid books about hard work, travel, and modern industry. His best-known writing brings readers straight into places most people never saw for themselves, including the dangerous world of coal mining.
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
Joseph Husband was an American writer and journalist born in 1885 and died in 1938. Available catalog records for his work show a career centered on reported nonfiction rather than fiction, with books that aimed to explain everyday labor, transportation, and public life to general readers.
His best-known book is A Year in a Coal-Mine (1911), a firsthand account of time spent working in a coal mine. Other works associated with him in library and bookseller records include The Story of the Pullman Car, A Year in the Navy, and Americans by Adoption, suggesting a strong interest in industry, institutions, and the lives of working people.
What still makes his work interesting is its direct, curious spirit. Instead of writing from a distance, he seems to have preferred close observation and lived experience, giving his books the feel of reportage meant to make unfamiliar worlds clear to ordinary readers.