Home From the Sea
KENNETH ROBERTS’S ancestors have been “ down-Easters” since 1639. He himself made his first reputation as a staff writer for the Saturday Evening Post, where his articles were featured for almost a decade. He had written no fiction whatever when, in 1928, he cut loose from journalism and with a packing case of reference books sought sanctuary in Italy, where he wrote Arundel, his first historical novel about the North Country. Rabble in Arms, Northwest Passage, and Oliver Wiswell followed, establishing his second reputation and a lasting one.