Writers Kenneth Roberts (1885–1957) and Esther Forbes (1891–1967) were contemporaries who had much in common. Both were New Englanders born and bred, with roots reaching back to Colonial America. Both won the Pulitzer Prize, Roberts winning a Special Citation just before his death, Forbes in 1943 for “Paul Revere and the World He Lived In.”
Both were diligent researchers who received help from loved ones, Roberts from his wife Anna, Forbes from her mother Harriette. Both were gifted with the ability to bring America’s colonial period and the American Revolution vividly alive via paper and print.
