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Samuel Shellabarger (
1888 -
1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels. He was born in Washington, D.C., on
18 May 1888, but his parents both died while he was a baby. Samuel was therefore reared by his grandfather,
Samuel Shellabarger, a noted lawyer who had served in Congress during the
American Civil War and as Minister to
Portugal. Young Samuel's travels with his grandfather later proved a goldmine of background material for his novels.
Shellabarger attended private schools and in 1909 graduated from
Princeton University, where he'd later teach. After studying for a year at Munich University in Germany, he resumed his studies at
Harvard University and
Yale University. Despite taking a year off to serve in
World War I, he received his doctorate in 1917. In 1915 he married Vivan Georgia Lovegrove Borg whom he'd met the year before during a vacation in Sweden. They had four children, but the two boys died: one as an infant and the other serving in
World War II. Shellabarger himself died of a heart attack in Princeton, New Jersey, on
21 March 1954.
Having already published some scholarly works and not wanting to undermine their credibility by publishing fiction, Shellabarger used pen names for his first mysteries and romances: "John Esteven" and then "Peter Loring." He continued to write scholarly works and to teach, but his historical novels proved so popular that he soon started using his own name on them. Some of them were best-sellers and were made into movies.
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