Angelo Hall

Born in 1868, Angelo Hall was the third son of astronomer Asaph Hall and Angeline Stickney Hall. Available library and reference records identify him as a Unitarian minister, and family references note that he also taught mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Hall is remembered today for a small but interesting body of work. He wrote An Astronomer's Wife, a biography of his mother, and also published Facts about the Bible and the novel Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California. That mix of subjects gives him an unusual place among early 20th-century writers: part biographer, part religious writer, part storyteller.

He died in 1922. Although he is not widely known now, his books still circulate through public-domain and library collections, where they offer a glimpse of an author comfortable moving between personal history, belief, and popular narrative.