Bart Kennedy(1861-1930)
- Writer
Known as "The Tramp Author", Kennedy wrote around twenty books as he
traveled the world by ship or by foot. A native of Manchester, England,
Kennedy was working in cotton mills there by the age of six. While
still a youth, Kennedy served aboard merchant vessels that plied the
North Atlantic before he came to America. He travels there took him
throughout the American Southwest where he became involved in the
Indian Wars and later north, to participate in the Alaskan Gold Rush.
Kennedy also toured by foot much of Spain with only a revolver and his
British passport for protection.
After he tired of traveling, Kennedy became an opera singer and actor. Later he would write columns for several newspapers that were occasionally critical of the United States. During the early years of the First World War he felt the United States should have taken a harder stand against Germany. Kennedy also wrote critical articles about the plight of the working poor in America and England.
Kennedy's better known works would include, "Darab's Wine Cup and Other Tales" (1899), "A Man Adrift" (1900, "The Hunger Line" (1908) and) "A Tramp's Philosophy" (1908).
Kennedy died around the age of seventy on 6 December, 1930, in a London sanitarium after a friend found him ill, without food and ambivalent to life or death. He had at one time lived in a fourteen room house in a well-to-do neighborhood in Brighton. Kennedy often gave as his favorite recreation as "Doing nothing".
After he tired of traveling, Kennedy became an opera singer and actor. Later he would write columns for several newspapers that were occasionally critical of the United States. During the early years of the First World War he felt the United States should have taken a harder stand against Germany. Kennedy also wrote critical articles about the plight of the working poor in America and England.
Kennedy's better known works would include, "Darab's Wine Cup and Other Tales" (1899), "A Man Adrift" (1900, "The Hunger Line" (1908) and) "A Tramp's Philosophy" (1908).
Kennedy died around the age of seventy on 6 December, 1930, in a London sanitarium after a friend found him ill, without food and ambivalent to life or death. He had at one time lived in a fourteen room house in a well-to-do neighborhood in Brighton. Kennedy often gave as his favorite recreation as "Doing nothing".