Author: Herrick, Robert (1868-1938). American realist author whose novels addressed the turbulence and turmoil of industrialized society. He briefly served as acting Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Title: Autograph, Signed & Dated by the American Novelist Robert Herrick While in Mexico.
Description: Cuernavaca, Mexico, February 26, 1933. 1933. - American novelist Robert Herrick's autograph penned on 4-1/2 inch high by 5 inch wide creamy white paper. Signed "Robert Herrick / Cuernavaca, Mexico, / 26 Feb. 1933". Folded for mailing, the paper is mounted from the verso onto gray stock from an autograph album. Good.

The American novelist Robert Welch Herrick (1863-1938) was part of a newly emerging generation of American realists who addressed the turbulence and turmoil of industrialized society. Praised by William James, Herrick's work differed from Upton Sinclair's muckraking style to achieve its power from the perspective of melancholic fatalism. Appointed Secretary to the United States Virgin Islands in 1935, he found himself in the position of acting-Governor of the Islands when a political scandal forced Governor Paul Martin Pearson and his Lieutenant Governor to appear before the Senate. Pearson was forced to resign and, as his successor Lieutenant Governor Lawrence William Cramer was forced to remain in Washington until hearings were concluded, Herrick found himself presiding over the current legislative sessions. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; NOVELIST; ROBERT HERRICK; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; DATED; CUERNAVACA, MEXICO; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; AMERICAN REALISM; ACTING GOVERNOR OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.

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