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Theodore Goodridge Roberts (July 7, 1877 – February 24, 1953) was a Canadian novelist and poet. He was the author of thirty-four novels and over one hundred published stories and poems.〔Nicola Faieta, "(Theodore Goodridge Roberts )," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, STU.ca, Web, May 12, 2011.〕 He was the brother of poet Charles G.D. Roberts, and the father of painter Goodridge Roberts. ==Life== He was born George Edwards Theodore Goodridge Roberts in Fredericton, to Emma Wetmore Bliss and Anglican Rev. George Goodridge Roberts. The poet Charles G.D. Roberts, and the writers William Carman Roberts and Jane Roberts MacDonald, were his siblings.〔 He published his first poem in 1899, when he was eleven, in the ''New York Independent'' (where his cousin Bliss Carman was working), and his first prose piece (a comparison of the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Gettysburg) in the ''Century'' two years later.〔Nicola Faieta, "Theodore Goodridge Roberts," ''New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia'', STU.ca, Web, May 12, 2011.〕 Roberts attended Fredericton Collegiate School, though (since school records were lost in a fire) the exact years are unknown. He later went to University of New Brunswick (UNB), but left without graduating.〔 He published poetry in UNB's ''University Magazine.〔Martin Ware, (Introduction, ''That Far River: Selected Poems of Theodore Goodridge Roberts'' ), Canadian Press, UWO, Web, Mar. 12, 2011.〕 In 1897 he moved to New York City, living with his brothers Charles and William and working at ''The Independent.'' In 1898 the magazine sent him to Cuba, as a special correspondent, to cover the Spanish–American War. While on the island he contacted malaria—he was sent back to New York and consulted specialists, who sent him back to Fredericton "to die."〔"(Life of Theodore Goodridge Roberts )," ''That Far River: Selected Poems of Theodore Goodridge Roberts'' (London, ON: Canadian Poetry Press, 1995), UWO, Web, May 13, 2011.〕 An unnamed surgeon saved Roberts's life, and he was nursed back to heath by Frances Seymour Allen (whom he would subsequently marry). The next year he travelled to Newfoundland, where he helped to found and edit ''The Newfoundland Magazine''. He published his first book of poetry (''Northand Lyrics'', an anthology edited by Charles G.D. Roberts and featuring his three siblings) in 1899, and his first novel, ''The House of Isstens'', in 1900. In 1901 Roberts sailed on a barkentine to Brazil. In 1902 he returned to Fredericton and briefly edited a second magazine, ''The Kit-Bag''.〔 Roberts married Frances Seymour Allen in November 1903, and they had a two-year honeymooon in Barbados where their first child was born.〔 They would have four children: William Goodridge, Dorothy Mary Gostwick, Theodora Frances Bliss and Loveday (who died as an infant).〔"(Biographical Sketch )," Theodore Goodridge Roberts Fonds, Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick, UNB.ca, Web, May 12, 2011.〕 Roberts averaged three novels a year from 1908 until 1914. At that time his "many novels of adventure and romance" already enoyed a "wide popularity in English-speaking lands."〔John William Garvin, "(Theodore Goodridge Roberts )," ''Canadian Poets'' (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, 377, UPenn.edu, Web, May 12, 2011.〕 A former militiaman, Roberts re-enlisted in 1914 when World War I broke out, serving as a lieutenant in the 12th Canadian Infantry Battalion, commanded by Lt.-Col. Harry Fulton McLeod of Fredericton—Roberts' entire family followed him to England.〔 When the 12th Battalion was assigned to a reserve and training roll in early 1915, Roberts was transferred to a position perhaps better fitted to his combination of military knowledge and literary skill. "In the summer of 1915, he was transferred to the Canadian War Records Office at the request of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Roberts wrote official reports and battlefield accounts and published three works in collaboration with others."〔 He was promoted captain early in 1916. When Roberts was in Europe he left his manuscripts and papers, including work not yet published, with a Dr. Wainwright in Saint John, who stored them in his basement. They were destroyed in the spring of 1919 when the Saint John River flooded.〔 In 1929 Roberts wrote a weekly column for the Saint John ''Telegraph-Journal'', "Under the Sun." From April through September 1930 he edited another small magazine, ''Acadie''.〔 In 1932 he undertook his last major sea cruise, sailing through the Panama Canal to Vancouver and back. The same year he did a cross-Canada reading tour, which "culminated with festivities in Vancouver."〔 Roberts moved to Toronto in 1935, and in 1937 briefly edited another magazine, ''Spotlight''. In 1939 he relocated to Aylmer, Quebec, where he briefly founded another magazine, ''Swizzles.''〔 He returned to New Brunswick in 1941, and in 1945 moved to Digby, Nova Scotia, where he would die eight years later.〔 He is buried beside Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman in Fredericton's Forest Hill Cemetery.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theodore Goodridge Roberts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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