Lincoln Colcord

Born on August 14, 1883, aboard the bark Charlotte A. Littlefield off Cape Horn, Lincoln Ross Colcord grew up in a seafaring Maine family and drew on that background throughout his writing. He became an American journalist and author of short fiction, publishing in newspapers and magazines from the early 1900s and writing during the Woodrow Wilson years.

Colcord is best remembered for sea stories and other maritime writing. Titles associated with him include The Drifting Diamond and An Instrument of the Gods, and Other Stories of the Sea, and his work is often noted for its strong sense of life aboard ship and coastal New England.

Later in life, he was also known as a maritime historian. He died in Belfast, Maine, on November 16, 1947, leaving behind a body of work closely tied to the world he knew best: ships, sailors, and the sea.