author
Robert Shackleton
1860–1923
An American journalist and travel writer, he turned cities, landscapes, and everyday life into lively, approachable reading. His books and magazine pieces have an easy curiosity that makes the early twentieth century feel close at hand.
3 Audiobooks
Getting at the Inner Man, and, Fifty Years on the Lecture Platform
by Robert Shackleton, Russell H. Conwell
The Story of Fifty-Seven Cents
by Robert Shackleton
Strange stories of the Civil War
by Robert Shackleton, L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden, William Drysdale, G. A. Forsyth, John Habberton, William J. Henderson, Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie, Howard Patterson
About the author
Born in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, in 1860, Robert Shackleton built his career in newspapers and magazines before becoming known as an author. Sources available here describe him as an American author and journalist, and note that he worked in newspaper publishing, later serving as an associate editor of The Saturday Evening Post in the early 1900s.
He wrote widely about places and culture, with books including The Book of Philadelphia (1918) and The Story of Harper's Magazine, 1850–1917 (1916). Wikisource also notes that many of his shorter works appeared in Harper's Magazine, which fits the lively, observant style of writing he is remembered for.
Shackleton died in 1923. Although he is not a household name today, his work still offers a readable window into American publishing, travel, and city life in the years just before and after World War I.