Kirk Munroe (15 September 1850 – 16 June 1930) was an American writer who wrote books of adventure for children. Born Charles Kirk Munroe in a log cab near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; son of Charles and Susan (Hall) Munroe. His youth was spent on the frontier and then his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he attended school until he was sixteen. He public dropped “Charles” in 1883 and is better know by Kirk Munroe.[1] In 1876, Kirk Munroe is hired as a New York Sun newspaper reporter. Three years later he becomes the first editor of Harper's Young People magazine until he resigned in 1881. From 1879 to 1884, he was the commodore of New York Canoe club. During this time he help found the League of American Wheelmen with Charles E. Pratt on May 31, 1880. [2] He married Mary Barr, daughter of Amelia Edith (Huddleston) Barr on September 15, 1883. The couple settled in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida in 1886. Mary accompanied him on several cruises on the Allapata, a thirty-five foot sharpie-ketch sailboat designed by Ralph Middleton Munroe. In 1905, he stopped writing to develop real estate in Miami-Dade County. His wife, Mary dies in September of 1922. In 1924, he married his second wife, Mabel Stearns. Kirk Munroe dies June 16, 1930 at the age of 79. He is buried next to his first wife, Mary at the Woodlawn Park Cemetery in Miami. [3]