Joseph C. Lincoln
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Joseph Crosby Lincoln was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod
Cape Cod
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

. Lincoln's work frequently appeared in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and The Delineator
The Delineator
The Delineator was an American women's magazine of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founded by the Butterick Publishing Company in 1869 under the name The Metropolitan Monthly. Its name was changed in 1875. In November 1926, under the editorship of Mrs...

. Lincoln was aware of contemporary naturalist
Naturalism (literature)
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character...

 writers, such as Frank Norris
Frank Norris
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague , The Octopus: A Story of California , and The Pit .-Life:Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870...

 and Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of...

, who used American literature to plumb the depths of human nature, but he rejected this literary exercise. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied "spinning yarns" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors. Two of his stories have been adapted to film.

Lincoln was born in Brewster, Massachusetts
Brewster, Massachusetts
Brewster is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod. The population of Brewster was 9,820 at the 2010 census.Brewster is twinned with the town of Budleigh Salterton in the United Kingdom....

, on Cape Cod, but his mother moved the family to Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...

, a manufacturing city outside of Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, after the death of his father. Lincoln's literary career celebrating "old Cape Cod" can partly be seen as an attempt to return to an Eden from which he had been driven by family tragedy. His literary portrayal of Cape Cod can also be understood as a pre-modern haven occupied by individuals of old Yankee stock which was offered to readers as an antidote to an America that was undergoing rapid modernization, urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. Lincoln was a Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 and a Universalist
Universalist Church of America
The Universalist Church of America was a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States . Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942...

.

Upon becoming successful, Lincoln spent his winters in northern New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

, near the center of the publishing world in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

, but summered in Chatham, Massachusetts
Chatham, Massachusetts
Chatham is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 6,625 at the 2000 census...

. In Chatham, he lived in a shingle-style house named "Crosstrees" that was located on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Lincoln died in 1944, at the age of 73, in Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park is a suburban city in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 24,090 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 28,083. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area...

.

Major works

  • Cape Cod Ballads and Other Verse (1902)
  • Cap'n Eri: A Story of the Coast (1904)(adapted into the 2009 film "The Golden Boys
    The golden boys
    The Golden Boys may refer to:*Chatham , directed by Daniel Adams. The movie was renamed from Chatham to for distribution.*Watford F.C., Watford Football Club...

    ")
  • Partners of the Tide (1905)
  • Mr. Pratt (1906)
  • Cape Cod Stories (1907)
  • Cy Whittaker's Place (1908)
  • Our Village (1909)
  • Keziah Coffin (1909)
  • The Depot Master (1910)
  • Cap'n Warren's Wards (1911)
  • The Woman-Haters: A Yarn of Eastboro Twin-lights (1911)(adapted into the 2010 film "The Lightkeepers
    The Lightkeepers
    The Lightkeepers is a romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Adams. Adams also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner.. The cast also includes Mamie Gummer and Tom Wisdom....

    ")
  • The Postmaster (1912)
  • The Rise of Roscoe Paine (1912)
  • Mr. Pratt's Patients (1913)
  • Cap'n Dan's Daughter (1914)
  • Kent Knowles: Quahaug (1914)
  • Thankful's Inheritance (1915)
  • Mary-'Gusta (1916)
  • Extricating Obadiah (1917)
  • "Shavings" (1918)
  • The Portygee (1920)
  • Galusha the Magnificent (1921)
  • Fair Harbor (1922)
  • Doctor Nye of North Ostable (1923)
  • Rugged Water (1924)
  • Queer Judson (1925)
  • The Big Mogul (1926)
  • The Aristocratic Miss Brewster (1927)
  • Silas Bradford's Boy (1928)
  • Blair's Attic (1929)
  • Blowing Clear (1930)
  • All Alongshore (1931)
  • Head Tide (1932)
  • Back Numbers (1933)
  • The Peel Trait (1934)
  • Storm Signals (1935)
  • Great-Aunt Lavinia (1936)
  • Storm Girl (1937)
  • Christmas Days (1938)
  • A. Hall & Co. (1938)
  • The Ownley Inn (1939)
  • Rhymes of the Old Cape (1939)
  • Out of the Fog (1940)
  • The New Hope (1941)
  • The Bradshaws of Harniss (1943)

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