Ebenezer Cook

Ebenezer Cook fl. 1708, American author. Virtually nothing is known about his life. He is the author of The Sot-Weed Factor (1708), a satirical poem concerning an Englishman's visit to Maryland. Sotweed Redivivus (1730), a treatise on tobacco production, is also attributed to him. Cook is the central character in The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), a novel by John Barth .

Cook, Ebenezer (fl.1708), author of the satirical poem The Sot‐Weed Factor (1708), of whom nothing definite is known. According to the poem, he was an Englishman who visited Maryland, but he is now considered to have been an American. Sotweed Redivivus (1730), a serious verse treatise on the overproduction of tobacco, is probably by him, and elegies on Nicholas Lowe and William Lock bear Cook's name, with the title “Laureat,” which may have been granted by Lord Baltimore. To Cook is also attributed The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion, a burlesque poem in the collection The Maryland Muse (1731), thought to be based on the Burwell Papers. He was the inspiration for a modern novel, The Sot‐Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth.