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Colcord, Lincoln (1883 - 1947)
Genre: General Fiction
Though technically born on a ship that was rounding Cape Horn on its way to China, Colcord's home was Searsport, Maine. He came from five generations of sea-faring men and it's not surprising that he wrote about the sea. Colcord graduated from Univ. of Maine in 1905 and was a Washington correspondent for the Philadelphia Ledger around the time of the first World War.
Selected Bibliography
- Vision of War, (1915) a 150-page poem that was Colcord's most famous work
- The Drifting Diamond,(1912),
- The Game of Life and Death: Stories of the Sea,(1914), and
- An Instrument of the Gods, and other stories of the sea,(1922/1972).
Story collection
- Sea Stories from Searsport to Singapore: Selections of Lincoln Colcord (1987)
Other works
- Giants in the Earth, a Saga of the Prairies, by O.E. Rolvaag (1927) a translation
- Sailing Days on the Penobscot... (1932) for 's - Who Rules America: A Century of Invisible Government by John McConaughy (1934), wrote the appendix
- Roll and Go by Joanna Colcord(1924) wrote the introduction, the author was his sister
Selected Resources
A book on both Joanna and Lincoln Colcord was published in 1999, entitled: - Letters from Sea, 1882-1901: Joanna and Lincoln Colcord's Seafaring Childhood by Parker Bishop Albee. - Maine Authors: a Collection of Clippings from the Portland Sunday Telegram - Maine Author Scrapbooks : a Collection of Newspaper Clippings Vol. 2