author
Joseph Husband
1885–1938
Best known for vivid nonfiction about work, industry, and life at sea, this early 20th-century American writer turned firsthand experience into lively books for general readers. His subjects ranged from coal mines and rail travel to naval service and the people who helped build modern 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 an American author whose career centered on clear, energetic popular nonfiction. Sources available here identify him as a Harvard graduate and list his death on September 21, 1938.
His books show a strong interest in how ordinary labor and large systems shaped modern life. Among the works confirmed in this search are A Year in a Coal-Mine, A Year in the Navy, The Story of the Pullman Car, and Americans by Adoption. Taken together, they suggest a writer drawn to reporting on work, transportation, public service, and American identity in a direct, accessible way.
Although he is not widely known today, his writing still offers a useful window into the industries and institutions of the early 1900s. Readers who enjoy firsthand-style historical nonfiction and accounts of everyday American life may find his work especially appealing.