Charles Rumford Walker Jr. (July 31, 1894 – November 26, 1974) was an American historian, political scientist, and novelist. He specialized in the study of the history of the industrial worker.
Biography
Walker was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He was the son of Francis Sheafe and Charles Rumford Walkerborn, a physician and politician. He graduated from Yale University in 1916 and served in the United States Army during World War I.
He was associate editor of Atlantic Monthly from 1922 to 1923, The Independent from 1924 to 1925, and The Bookman from 1928 to 1929. One of his most successful books was American City: Rank and File View (1937). He also wrote Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker and Bread and Fire: A Novel.
He died on November 26, 1974.
References
- ^ "Charles Walker, Ex-Yale Official. Council Head and Curator of Library Collections Dies". The New York Times. November 27, 1974. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
External links
- Works by Charles Rumford Walker at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Charles Rumford Walker at the Internet Archive
- Minnesota Historical Society biography
- Library Thing entry
- 1890s births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 1974 deaths
- American magazine editors
- The Atlantic (magazine) people
- Yale University alumni
- American male novelists
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American political scientists