Joe Lincoln of Cape Cod

Joseph Crosby Lincoln was born in the Cape Cod village of Brewster on February 13, 1870. Brewster was at that time a typical Cape Cod town of about fifteen hundred inhabitants....

Following the success of “Cap’n Eri” and when the royalties from the book began to pile up, Lincoln wrote “Partners of the Tide,” continuing along the same amusing and humorous...

Although neither Joe Lincoln nor Irving S. Cobb will probably be considered a major figure of American literature, the audience of each was larger and more devoted than the foll...

In December 1917 Joe Lincoln was interviewed by a young reporter on the Boston Herald. Although neither the interviewed nor the interviewer was aware of it at the time, the youn...

It was Joe Lincoln’s proudest boast that he was a Yankee and a Cape Codder. In an article in the American Magazine in July, 1919, he said, “I am a Yankee--I was born on Cape Cod...

It would require many pages to tell the separate story of the success of each one of Joe Lincoln’s fifty odd books. However, to mention a few beginning with “Cap’n Eri,” publish...

As a poet Joe Lincoln excelled as well as in prose. Since his first successful attempts at writing were in verse and his first book was a book of poetry it is only fitting that...

“Friendship is built on shared experiences, be they of the mind, the heart or the soul.” Perhaps that is why Joe Lincoln counted his friends by the tens of thousands. For forty...

One good way to learn about a man and what he is actually like is to talk about him with his friends. One of Lincoln’s close friends at Chatham on the Cape was John Emery, owner...

It would seem that even well known authors like to read the books of other men and Joe Lincoln confessed to an interviewer one day in 1929 that he was fond of mystery stories.

Joe Lincoln always had a word of encouragement for embryo writers, who were “starting out” in the battle of life. Lincoln himself was an author who went through the mill. No dar...

One of the last articles to come from the pen of the beloved Joe Lincoln before death beckoned him from the Cape Cod he loved so deeply, appeared in the Boston Herald on April 2...

Joe Lincoln’s keen interest in anything having to do with the Cape was expressed in the following letter to the editor of the Boston Traveler on December 26, 1935, in which he w...