author
Louise Gerard
1878–1970
A widely read early 20th-century British novelist, she wrote dramatic, fast-moving romances and adventure stories for Mills & Boon. Her novels traveled well beyond Britain, and one of them, A Son of the Sahara, was adapted for the screen.
2 Audiobooks
A Son of the Sahara
by Louise Gerard
Bride of the night
by Louise Gerard
About the author
Born Amelia Louise Gerard in Basford, Nottingham, on March 26, 1878, she was educated in Nottingham and began writing after school. Reference sources describe her as the daughter of a Nottingham soap manufacturer, and her work quickly earned notice as lively popular fiction.
She published her first novel, The Golden Centipede, in 1910 and went on to produce more than twenty novels, largely for Mills & Boon. Her fiction is often associated with romance, sensation, and adventure, and readers today may know her best for A Son of the Sahara, which later became a silent film.
She also traveled widely in Europe, including Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, and Scandinavia, and that sense of movement and far-off settings helped shape the atmosphere of her books. She died on November 5, 1970.