author
Francis William Sullivan
b. 1887
An early 20th-century American novelist, he wrote adventure stories set in rugged northern landscapes and frontier country. His best-known book, The Wilderness Trail (1913), was later adapted into a silent film.
3 Audiobooks
The Wilderness Trail
by Francis William Sullivan
The Harbor of Doubt
by Francis William Sullivan
The Free Range
by Francis William Sullivan
About the author
Writing under the pen name Frank Williams, Francis William Sullivan was born on February 16, 1887, in Evanston, Illinois. He was an American author whose work appeared in the 1910s, a period when popular fiction often mixed romance, danger, and wide-open settings.
His best-known novel is The Wilderness Trail, published in 1913 and illustrated by Douglas Duer. He also wrote Star of the North (1916) and other adventure fiction. The Wilderness Trail was later adapted into the 1919 silent film of the same name, showing that his stories reached audiences beyond the page.
Sullivan died on March 5, 1963. While not widely remembered today, his work still offers a glimpse of the brisk, outdoorsy storytelling that appealed to readers in the early twentieth century.