Francis Russell (January 12, 1910 – March 20, 1989) was an American author specializing in American history and historical figures, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Russell is best known for his book on Warren G. Harding, The Shadow of Blooming Grove.
He graduated from Bowdoin College, and from Harvard University, with a master's degree in 1937.
[2] Russell became embroiled in a lawsuit with some of the heirs of Warren Harding around the publication of his 1968 biography of the former president.
In it, he claimed to solve the case, proposing that only Nicola Sacco was guilty and Bartholomew Vanzetti was innocent.