Kenneth Roberts (center) with novelist Booth Tarkington and inventor Atwater Kent on the Coast of Maine in 1925 (5)

Click here to explore historic maps at the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine. Shown here is a map of Arundel in 1891. Arundel is the name of Kenneth Robert’s 1st novel written in 1929. (The Town of Arundel changed its name to Kennebunkport when Maine became a state in 1820, then changed it back to Arundel in 1957). (6)

The Quill and Dagger Tower at Cornell University ~ As a student at Cornell, Kenneth Roberts was a member of Quill and Dagger Society. Click here to read These 10 Secret Societies are among Higher Ed’s Most Mysterious. (7)

Army Captain Kenneth Roberts in Vladivostok, Russia in October, 1918 (8)

Kenneth Roberts enlisted in the Army in 1917 and served as an intelligence officer and correspondent in the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia during the Russian Civil War (9)

Scraps From A Wanderer’s Notebook ~ December 17, 1921 ~ page 21+ (11)

My Stupid Dogs ~ October 17, 1925 ~ page 10+ (12)

Terriers I Have Met ~ June 2, 1928 ~ page 14+ (13)

How I Don’t Play Golf ~ January 24, 1931 ~ page 10+ (14)

Hitler Youth ~ June 2, 1934 ~ page 23+ (15)

I Like Girls With Simple Tastes was published in the June 27, 1936 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The article was in response to an earlier Saturday Evening Post article called I Like Men With Money and gives insight into Roberts’ personality: “As I grow older and more crotchety, and find myself becoming more and more intolerant of persons incapable of thinking straight, talking sensibly or behaving normally.” (Both covers and dates are shown below) (16)

An anonymous article I Like Men With Money appeared on page 20+ of this May 9, 1936 issue. Roberts’ wrote his famous reply in the June 27, 1936 issue below. (17)

I Like Girls With Simple Tastes ~ June 27, 1936 ~ page 10+ (18)

Don’t Say That About Maine! ~ November 6, 1948 ~ page 30+ (19)

A dog lover, Roberts wrote several articles about dogs (20)

Kenneth Roberts with his dogs in the garden at his home Rocky Pastures in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1939 (21)

Reading: Read the essay “On Local Traditions” in Roberts’ book Trending Into Maine. Create a free account and “borrow” the book HERE. The essay is on page 52-61 (22)

Kenneth Roberts at his home Rocky Pastures (23)

Kenneth Roberts’ living room at RockyPastures in Kennebunkport in 1939 (24)

A vintage postcard of Kenneth Roberts’ residence Rocky Pastures in Kennebunkport, Maine in the 1940s (25)

Virtual Visit: Tour Kenneth Roberts’ Rocky Pasture in Kennebunkport, Maine when it was listed for sale in 2015. (26)

Kenneth Roberts at Timber Point in Maine (27)

Kenneth Roberts at Timber Point estate in Maine (28)

Reading: Click here to read (on the new Google Books reader) the Prologue and Chapter I of Kenneth Roberts’ first novel Arundel, published in 1930 ~ “This is the classic series from Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novelist Kenneth Roberts, all featuring characters from the town of Arundel, Maine. Arundel follows Steven Nason as he joins Benedict Arnold in his march to Quebec during the American Revolution.” ~Amazon.com (29)

An advertisement for Parker pens around the time Roberts had published his most famous work, Northwest Passage, in 1937 (30)

Click here to read Kenneth Roberts’ obituary in the Greenville News from 1957 (32)

Kenneth Roberts’ grave at Arlington National Cemetery