Charles Burdett

Charles Burdett was a 19th-century American writer, born in 1815 or 1816 and dead by September 24, 1862. Sources consistently connect him with novelist and historical writing, though they do not agree on every biographical detail.

He is described as the adopted son of former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr, a connection that clearly shaped at least part of his work. Burdett wrote Margaret Moncrieffe; the First Love of Aaron Burr, published in 1860, and bibliographic records also credit him with novels including Arthur Martin, Chances and Changes, The Second Marriage, Three Per Cent a Month, and The Beautiful Spy.

A later family-history source says that for the last two years of his life he was associated with The New York Times, but that detail is harder to confirm from the more strictly bibliographic records, so it should be taken with some caution. No suitable verified portrait was found in the sources I checked.