Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on July 7, 1877, Theodore Goodridge Roberts was a Canadian novelist and poet who published thirty-four novels along with more than one hundred stories and poems. He was part of a notably literary family: his brother was the poet Charles G. D. Roberts, and his son was the painter Goodridge Roberts.

Biographical sources from New Brunswick describe him as a poet, novelist, and journalist, and note that his life included periods of farming, travel, and military service. He married Frances Seymour Allen in 1903, and the family lived in several places including Barbados, England, France, Ottawa, Toronto, and Fredericton.

Roberts died on February 24, 1953. Though he is less widely remembered today than some of his relatives, his body of work was large and energetic, spanning poetry, fiction, and historical writing.