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Encyclopedia > Samuel Shellabarger

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 I, 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. 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession. ...


Shellabarger attended private schools and in 1909 graduated from Princeton University, where he would later teach. After studying for a year at Munich University in Germany, he resumed his studies at Harvard 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 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. Shellabarger himself died of a heart attack in Princeton, New Jersey, on 21 March 1954. For other Princetons, see Princeton. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was by far the bloodiest and most expensive war in history, estimated... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the 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:

1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Tyrone Power in 1946 Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. ... Cesar Romero, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. ... Lee J. Cobb (1911-1976) was an American actor. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Tyrone Power in 1946 Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. ... Orson Welles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) is generally considered one of Hollywoods greatest directors, as well as a fine actor, broadcaster and screenwriter. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link:

Biography of Samuel Shellabarger by Jesse F. Knight


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The Program in Creative Writing, Princeton University (286 words)
Samuel Shellabarger Memorial Prize in Creative Writing The income from this fund is awarded annually to a senior who, in fulfillment of the senior thesis requirement, shows great promise of future literary excellence in the judgement of the faculty committee.
Samuel Shellabarger, who died in 1954, was a 1909 graduate of Princeton and taught in the English Department here for several years after earning a Ph.D. at Harvard.
The New York Times called Shellabarger “one of the most popular historical novelists of modern times.” His seven works of historical fiction were: The Black Gale (1929), Captain from Castile (1945), Prince of Foxes (1947), The King’s Cavalier (1950), Lord Vanity (1953), and The Token and Tolbecken (published posthumously in 1955 and 1956 respectively).
Samuel Shellabarger (1053 words)
Shellabarger himself said, "My grandfather was born in 1817 and my grandmother in 1828, so that, during my boyhood, I was especially under the influence of that generation with its traditional standards and with its memories which extended to the early days of the Republic.
Shellabarger was also an instructor at Princeton from 1914 until 1917.
Shellabarger has often been compared to Dumas in his swift narrative style, his vivid depiction of the pomp and pageantry of by-gone eras.
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