Robert Herrick Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles

Robert Herrick (1868-1938) was an American novelist who was a part of the realist movement, writing novels pertaining to the inequalities and difficulties of Industrialism. A graduate of Harvard, Herrick wrote several novels in his life, among them The World Decision, Web of Life, and The Memoirs of an American Citizen. Many of his novels were written while working as a literature professor at the University of Chicago. Later in life, Herrick briefly served as the acting-Governor of the United States Virgin Islands while former Governor Paul Martin Pearson was involved in a political scandal.