His Family Author:Ernest Poole Ernest Poole (1880 - 1950) was born in Chicago, Illinois on 23 Jan 1880, and graduated from Princeton University in 1902. He was a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post in Europe before and during World War I. He died in Franconia, NH on 10 Jan 1950. — "His Family" has remained the work for which he is most well-known. This story of a middl... more »e class family in 1910 New York City is considered one of the first fictional works to offer a positive view of unions. His Family, published in 1917, made him the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.« less