author
William Merriam Rouse
1884–1937
A prolific pulp-era storyteller, he wrote adventure and short fiction that turned up in magazines and on early film screens. His surviving work offers a glimpse of the fast-moving, imaginative popular fiction of the early 20th century.
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The shotgun princess
by William Merriam Rouse
About the author
An American writer born in Albany, New York, on March 18, 1884, he is remembered as a pulp-fiction and short-story author whose work circulated in the magazine world of the early 1900s. Reference records also link him to screenwriting, including credit on the 1918 silent film Jules of the Strong Heart.
Bibliographic sources show that he published fiction in the pulp era and contributed at least one story to Astounding Stories of Super-Science, placing him among the many writers who moved between adventure, mystery, and early science-fiction markets. Public-domain listings for works such as The Shotgun Princess have helped keep his name in circulation.
Although not widely documented in modern biographical sources, his career reflects the busy freelance culture of popular magazines in the decades before paperback publishing took over. He died in 1937.