Samuel Shellabarger (1888 - 1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) He was born in Washington, D. C. , on 18 May 1888, but his parents both died while he was a baby. Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a 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. Userpolbot from http//bioguidecongressgov/scripts/biodisplaypl?index=S000325 Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. 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 would later teach. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. 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. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All In 1915 he married Vivan Georgia Lovegrove Borg whom he had 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. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Shellabarger himself died of a heart attack in Princeton, New Jersey, on 21 March 1954. Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar)

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.

Works of fiction:

• Captain from Castile (1946) (1947 film starring Tyrone Power, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb)
• The Door of Death (1928)
• The King's Cavalier (1950)
• Lord Vanity (1953)
• Prince of Foxes (1947) (1949 film starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles)
• Tolbecken (1955)

External links

• Biography and Bibliography of Samuel Shellabarger by Jesse F. Knight

See also

• Alexandre Dumas, père
• Karl May
• Baroness Orczy
• Rafael Sabatini
• Emilio Salgari
• Lawrence Schoonover
• Frank Yerby