Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885 –1957) was an American writer of
historical novels.
He worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known
for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a
popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in regionalist
historical fiction, often writing about his native state and its terrain and
about other upper New England states and scenes.
While a reporter for the Saturday Evening Post in the early
1920s, Roberts wrote many magazine articles and a book during the period
immediately following World War I that urged strong legal restrictions on
immigration from eastern and southern Europe and from Mexico, warning of the
dangers of immigration from places other than north western Europe.
He became a
leading voice for stricter immigration laws and testified before a
congressional committee on the subject. He wrote:
“If America doesn’t keep out the queer alien mongrelized
people of Southern and Eastern Europe, her crop of citizens will eventually be
dwarfed and mongrelized in turn.”
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