Samuel Shellabarger Net Worth
Samuel Shellabarger Net Worth is
$1.5 Million
Samuel Shellabarger Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Samuel Shellabarger (1888–1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels. He was born in Washington, D.C., on 18 May 1888. His parents both died while he was a baby. Samuel was therefore reared by his grandfather, Samuel Shellabarger, a noted lawyer who had served in Congress during the American Civil War and as Minister to Portugal. Young Samuel's travels with his grandfather later proved a goldmine of background material for his novels.Shellabarger attended private schools and in 1909 graduated from Princeton University, where he would later teach. After studying for a year at Munich University in Germany, he resumed his studies at Harvard University and Yale University. Despite taking a year off to serve in World War I, he received his doctorate in 1917. In 1915 he married Vivan Georgia Lovegrove Borg whom he had met the year before during a vacation in Sweden. They had four children, but the two boys died: one as an infant and the other serving in World War II. Shellabarger himself died of a heart attack in Princeton, New Jersey, on 21 March 1954.Having already published some scholarly works and not wanting to undermine their credibility by publishing fiction, Shellabarger used pen names for his first mysteries and romances: "John Esteven" and then "Peter Loring." He continued to write scholarly works and to teach, but his historical novels proved so popular that he soon started using his own name on them. Some of them were best-sellers and were made into movies. | Date Of Birth | May 18, 1888 |
| Died | 1954-01-01 |
| Place Of Birth | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
| Profession | Writer |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | His wife was a native of Sweden. They had two sons and two daughters; their first son, Robert, died in infancy, the second son, John Eric, was killed in World War II. |
| 2 | Taught English at Princeton between 1914-22. In 1938 was appointed headmaster of the Columbus School for Girls in Columbus, OH. |
| 3 | American biographer and author of swashbuckling, romantic historical novels. He sometimes used the pseudonyms John Esteven and Peter Loring. |
Known for movies
Prince of Foxes 1949
as Writer
Captain from Castile 1947
as Writer