A. S. (Azel Stevens) Roe

Born in New York City in 1798, Azel Stevens Roe wrote under the name A. S. Roe and became known as an American novelist of the mid-1800s. Reliable library and bibliographic records connect him with a long list of novels, including I've Been Thinking; or, The Secret of Success, A Long Look Ahead, To Love and to Be Loved, Looking Around, and The Cloud on the Heart.

Roe’s fiction was widely circulated in both the United States and Britain, suggesting that his stories found a broad readership in the Victorian era. The surviving records point to a style centered on everyday life, personal choices, and strongly marked moral themes—the kind of storytelling that fit naturally with 19th-century family and domestic reading.

He also wrote nonfiction: History of the First Ecclesiastical Society in East Windsor, a detailed local church history. Sources consistently place his life between 1798 and 1886, with his later years associated with East Windsor, Connecticut.