<b>His Family </b>is a novel by <b>Ernest Poole</b> published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first <b>Pulitzer Prize for the Novel</b> in 1918.<br /><br /><b>Ernest Cook Poole</b> (January 23, 1880 &ndash; January 10, 1950) was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s.