author
Stanley Waterloo
1846–1913
Best known for the prehistoric adventure The Story of Ab, this American writer moved easily between journalism, history, and fiction. His work helped bring late-19th-century readers everything from newspaper reporting to imaginative tales set in the distant past.
6 Audiobooks
The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
by Stanley Waterloo
A Man and a Woman
by Stanley Waterloo
The Wolf's Long Howl
by Stanley Waterloo
Luolaihmiset: Kertomus ihmissuvun alkuajoilta
by Stanley Waterloo
The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains
by Stanley Waterloo
About the author
Born in St. Clair County, Michigan, in 1846, Stanley Waterloo built a long career in journalism before becoming widely known as an author. He worked as a newspaperman, editor, and newspaper owner, and spent much of his professional life connected with Chicago publishing.
Waterloo wrote both fiction and nonfiction, but he is especially remembered for The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man (1897), a vivid prehistoric novel that kept his name in circulation long after many of his contemporaries faded from view. Reference sources also note his interest in speculative and adventure writing, which gives his work a place on the edges of early science fiction as well as mainstream popular fiction.
He died in Chicago in 1913. Today, he stands out as a versatile late-19th-century American man of letters whose career joined the fast pace of newspaper work with a taste for big, accessible storytelling.