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John De Morgan
1848–1926
A restless, wide-ranging storyteller, he wrote adventure tales, historical fiction, and early speculative stories while also living an unusually active public life. His career stretched from radical politics in Britain and Ireland to journalism and popular fiction in the United States.
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The Hero of Ticonderoga; or, Ethan Allen and His Green Mountain Boys
by John De Morgan
About the author
John de Morgan (1848–1926), also known as John Francis Morgan, was a British-born writer whose life seems to have been as dramatic as many of his books. Reliable reference sources describe him as an author of popular fiction, including historical adventures and some early science-fictional work, and note that he later lived in the United States, where he also worked as a tax collector.
He wrote a large number of fast-moving stories for popular readers, including novels set in the American colonial and Revolutionary periods. Some sources also record that he published under several pseudonyms, among them Captain Luther Barr, John L. Douglas, An Old Salt, and Frank Sheridan.
Beyond his fiction, de Morgan has drawn interest from historians because of his earlier political activism and transatlantic career. That unusual mix of agitator, civil servant, and prolific storyteller helps explain why his work still feels tied to the energy of late 19th- and early 20th-century popular writing.