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Samuel W. Odell
1864–1948
A lawyer by profession and a storyteller by instinct, this Illinois-born writer moved easily between civic life and imaginative fiction. His books range from youthful adventure to early speculative tales, giving him a small but memorable place in American popular literature.
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The Princess Athura: A romance of Iran
by Samuel W. Odell
About the author
Born in Hampton, Illinois, on November 4, 1864, Samuel W. Odell built his main career in law and became known in Moline, Illinois, as an attorney and public legal figure. Alongside that work, he also wrote fiction, showing a clear interest in adventure, romance, and imaginative future-facing stories.
Odell is remembered especially for works such as The Last War; Or, The Triumph of the English Tongue (1898), an early speculative novel, and The Princess Athura: A Romance of Iran. Reference sources also credit him with Atlanteans and note his place as a minor but notable early science-fiction writer.
He died in 1948. Reliable portrait images were not clearly available from the sources I could confirm, so no profile image is included here.