Ron Pollett was born in New Harbour, Trinity Bay, in 1900. He became a school teacher at the age of sixteen but after three years he left to work at Grand Falls. In the early 20’s he immigrated to the United States and worked as a printer in New York until his death in September, 1955. He visited his native Newfoundland frequently and enjoyed going fishing and trouting as well as renewing acquaintances with old-time fishermen. He wrote on Newfoundland’s colourful outport life, a subject which was dear to his heart and which he handled with much skill and insight.