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100 1 _aMcCue, James Westaway,
_d1911-1987
245 1 0 _aJoe Lincoln of Cape Cod
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-16
508 _aSteve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _aJoe Lincoln of Cape Cod by James Westaway McCue is a biographical and literary portrait written in the mid-20th century. The book explores the life, work, and popular appeal of novelist Joseph C. Lincoln, using the people, traditions, and landscape of Cape Cod as its constant frame. The book traces Lincoln’s upbringing in Brewster among generations of sea captains, his boyhood roaming the Cape, and his detour through bookkeeping and art before discovering his voice in verse and fiction about “Cape Cod Folks.” It follows his breakthrough with Cape Cod Ballads and Cap’n Eri, his steady stream of amiable, humorous village novels and plays, and his deliberate choice to celebrate decency and cheer rather than sordid “problem” fiction. McCue highlights Lincoln’s work habits (pencil drafts in morning sessions), his insistence on types rather than exact portraits, and his reflections on editors, serialization, and craft, captured in interviews (notably with Joyce Kilmer) and anecdotes about O. Henry. The narrative mixes literary appreciation with Cape lore—Yankee shrewdness tales, windmill-making, sea rescues—samples his poetry, and paints his Chatham home, hobbies, and friendships. It also covers collaborations with his son (including the War of 1812 adventure The New Hope), his lectures, stage and film adaptations, and his advocacy for preserving Cape Cod’s character. The closing chapters include his wartime salute to Chatham’s “Victory Market” and the community effort to memorialize him, rounding out a warm, engaging portrait of a writer who turned Cape Cod’s everyday life into enduring popular fiction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cSilver Lake P. O., Mass.: The Cape Cod Publishers, 1949
653 _aAuthors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
653 _aLincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77475
999 _c118195
_d118195