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Albert Ross
1851–1916
A bestselling American novelist of the late 19th century, he wrote under the pen name Albert Ross and became known for fast-moving, sensational fiction that reached a huge popular audience. Behind the pseudonym was Linn Boyd Porter, a prolific writer whose novels helped define a certain kind of mass-market entertainment in the 1890s.
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A New Sensation
by Albert Ross
About the author
Linn Boyd Porter, who published as Albert Ross, was an American novelist born in 1851 and died in 1916. Reference sources identify him as a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and note that he issued many popular novels under his pen name.
His fiction was widely associated with the sensational, high-demand popular reading of the late 19th century. Catalog and author listings connect him with books including A Black Adonis, His Private Character, Speaking of Ellen, Love at Seventy, and Thou Shalt Not, showing just how steadily he produced work for a large reading public.
Today, he is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a vivid example of the era's bestselling commercial fiction: prolific, readable, and closely tied to the tastes of everyday readers of his time.