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Marshall Everett
1863–1939
A prolific early 20th-century American compiler and popular historian, remembered for turning headline-making disasters, public figures, and practical know-how into books for a wide general audience. His works include accounts of the Titanic, the San Francisco earthquake, Theodore Roosevelt, and a sprawling encyclopedia of household and technical information.
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About the author
Marshall Everett (1863–1939) was an American author and compiler whose books were aimed at everyday readers rather than academic specialists. Library and public-domain catalogs consistently identify him as the author of a wide range of early 1900s works, including The Story of the Wreck of the Titanic, Complete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake, Roosevelt's Thrilling Experiences in the Wilds of Africa Hunting Big Game, and Everett's Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge.
His books show a clear pattern: he specialized in subjects that were timely, dramatic, or immediately useful. Some focused on major disasters and current events, while others gathered practical information on technology, home life, and self-education into large reference volumes. That mix of sensational history and hands-on knowledge helps explain why his work circulated so widely in inexpensive popular editions.
Reliable biographical detail about his personal life is scarce in the sources I could confirm, so the safest picture is of a hardworking, highly productive writer-editor whose name became attached to accessible books for mass audiences in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.