Author, Journalist. He was born at sea aboard the sailing vessel "Charlotte A. Littlefield", captained by his father while navigating around Cape Horn during a violent storm. He spent much of his young life aboard the various sailing vessels captained by his father, visiting ports as far away as Hong Kong as part of the merchant trade. It wasn't until he entered high school in his hometown of Searsport, Maine that he became rooted more to the soil than the sea. After high school he attended the University of Maine. He was considered by many to be one of the best and most authentic American authors of sea stories in his time and beyond. His first published story appeared in 1908, and his published works include "The Drifting Diamond", "An Instrument of the Gods", "Under Sail", "The Game of Life and Death", as well as his epic poem, "Vision of War". His poems and sea stories were also serialized in many of the national magazines of the era. His works often featured themes relating to Asian culture and the far east, regions and people who had a large influence on him as a boy during his voyages. Through these themes, he was able to explain the east to his western audiences. He also played a large role in bringing to print the English translation of Ole Rølvaag's book "Giants In The Earth". Apart from his own works, he contributed to the works of many others, including the nautical history, "Sailing Days on the Penobscot" by George S. Wasson. He gained a small amount of notoriety as well for having penned "The Maine Stein Song" for the University of Maine. The song was later made popular on record by his friend Rudy Vallee, and was also published as sheet music during the 1930s, leading to a brief battle over copyright. In 1917, Colcord became staff correspondent for the Washington bureau of the "Philadelphia Public Ledger", followed by a move to New York City, New York in 1919 as an associate editor for "The Nation". His work as a journalist was at times controversial. In 1919, the American Minister to Greece wrote an official letter in protest over Colcord's New York "Nation" article, "Why Wilson was Defeated at Paris." The protest was squelched by the State Department. It is the opinion of a noted Yale law professor that Lincoln Colcord played a much larger role in American politics toward the end of the Wilson era than is commonly known. His articles and political commentary can be found in many United States newspapers of the era, including the "Washington Post", and often caused controversy. In the investigative case files of the Bureau of Investigation, he was branded as a "strong advocate of the Lenin-Trotsky regime." As a political journalist, he is also listed as a director of New English Monthly Magazine "The Searchlight", a publication listed under the heading of "Foreign Radical Publications" by the Office of Radical Publications. Here, Colcord is also branded as a "propagandist." He was profiled in the 1954 book, "The New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963" by Christopher Lasch, highlighting his close association with Woodrow Wilson adviser Edward M. House. Much of his time late in life was spent as a nautical historian. He was one of the founders of the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, being elected in 1936 as Clerk of the Corporation and Secretary to the Board. He was also a founder of the nautical journal "The American Neptune". In 2003, a book of correspondence from his childhood years was published by Tilbury House Publishers titled, "Letters From Sea, 1882-1901: Joanna and Lincoln Colcord's Seafaring Childhood", edited by Parker Bishop Albee, Jr. His older sister Joanna Carver Colcord was also well-known as a published author, a noted sociologist, and a Director of the Russell Sage Foundation.