author
Nathan Schachner
1895–1955
Best known for lively biographies of America’s founding figures, this versatile writer also had an earlier life in pulp science fiction. Trained as both a chemist and a lawyer, he brought unusual range to everything he wrote.
2 Audiobooks
Pirates of the Gorm
by Nathan Schachner
Slaves of Mercury
by Nathan Schachner
About the author
Born in New York City in 1895, Nathaniel Schachner published under both Nat Schachner and Nathan Schachner. Before he became widely known for nonfiction, he trained in science and law and worked as a chemist and attorney, a background that helps explain the breadth of his interests.
Schachner first built a reputation in the 1930s as a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, including collaborations with Arthur Leo Zagat and work published under other bylines. Later, he turned increasingly to biography and history, and became especially known for books on major figures from early American history, including Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson.
He died in 1955. Today, he is remembered as an unusually wide-ranging American author whose career stretched from imaginative pulp storytelling to substantial historical biography.