Samuel shellabarger biography
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Samuel Shellabarger
American novelist
For his grandfather, the American politician, see Samuel Shellabarger (Ohio politician).
Samuel Shellabarger (18 May 1888 – 21 March 1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels.
Samuel shellabarger biography
Born 18 May 1888 in Washington, D.C., Shellabarger was orphaned in infancy, upon the death of both his father Robert and his mother Elizabeth, in January 1889. Samuel resultantly was raised in the household of his paternal grandfather also named Samuel Shellabarger, a noted lawyer who had served in Congress during the American Civil War and as Minister to Portugal.
The younger Samuel Shellabarger's travels with his grandfather would prove invaluable in the provision of background material for the former's historical novels.
Shellabarger attended private schools and in 1909 graduated from Princeton University, where he would later teach.[1] After studying for a year at Munich University in Germa