author
Robert Shackleton
1860–1923
A lively early-20th-century American journalist and travel writer, he turned cities, antiques, and overlooked corners of Europe into inviting reading. His books mix curiosity, history, and the easygoing tone of someone who genuinely liked exploring the world on foot.
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 worked in journalism before becoming a prolific author and editor. Sources describe him as having been in newspaper work in New York in the 1890s and later serving as an associate editor of The Saturday Evening Post.
He wrote across several genres, but he is especially associated with readable travel and place-writing. His books include The Book of New York, The Book of Philadelphia, Touring Great Britain, and Unvisited Places of Old Europe, along with works on antiques and home-making written with Elizabeth Shackleton.
His writing often approached places through anecdote, local character, and everyday detail rather than grand history alone, which helps it still feel approachable today. Robert Shackleton died in France in 1923.