The Outermost House, now considered a Cape Cod nature literary classic, was written after Beston spent what he called "a year of life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod". He also met his future wife Elizabeth Coatsworth, a fellow author of children's literature with whom he had two daughters, Margaret and Catherine.:97 They lived at Hingham, Massachusetts, and Chimney Farm in Nobleboro, Maine., during this time. During this time, he worked as an editor of The Living Age, an offshoot of The Atlantic Monthly. In 1919, The Firelight Fairy Book was published, followed by The Starlight Wonder Book in 1923. His second book of journalistic work, Full Speed Ahead, described these experiences.įollowing the end of World War I, Beston began writing fairy tales under the name "Henry Beston". Highlights from this period include being the only American correspondent to travel with the British Grand Fleet and to be aboard an American destroyer during combat engagement and sinking. In 1918, Beston became a press representative for the U.S. His service in le Bois le Pretre and at the Battle of Verdun was described in his first book, A Volunteer Poilu.
Beston joined the French army in 1915 and served as an ambulance driver. In 1914 he returned to Harvard as an English department assistant. In 1912, Beston took up teaching at the University of Lyon. While at Harvard, he lived at the historic Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts. Beston attended Adams Academy in Quincy before earning his B.A. Joseph Sheahan and Marie Louise (Maurice) Beston Sheahan, and brother George, a doctor.
Henry Beston (J– April 15, 1968) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1928.īorn Henry Beston Sheahan, he was born and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts with his parents, Dr.
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