Linn Boyd Porter

Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1851, Linn Boyd Porter became a novelist, journalist, and traveler with strong ties to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Contemporary reference works describe him as the author of many sensational novels, most of them published under the pseudonym Albert Ross.

Porter wrote a long list of popular novels, including Thou Shalt Not, Speaking of Ellen, A Black Adonis, and Riverfall. His fiction was aimed at a broad audience and was known for lively plots, romantic complications, and a taste for controversy that helped make him a commercial success.

He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1916. Although he is not as widely remembered now as some of his contemporaries, his work offers a vivid glimpse of the kind of page-turning popular fiction that captivated American readers of his era.