Gilbert Patten

William George "Gilbert" Patten (October 25, 1866 – January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish.

They divorced in 1898 and Gilbert Patten remarried to Mary Nunn of Baltimore (1900-1916) and he married a third time to Carol Kramer in 1918 until her death in 1938.

He sold it the next year to the Advertiser, and devoted his time to the stories, mostly westerns, for Beadle's Half-Dime Library.

[6] He wrote westerns with the pen name Wyoming Bill,[7] but is best known for his sporting stories in the Frank Merriwell series, written as Burt L. Standish.

[10] Gibert Patten also contributed to the Frank Merriwell comic strip from 1928, and supervised the 1934 NBC radio series.

[12] From 1927 to 1930, Gilbert Patten would start a new series of Frank Merriwell stories, aided now by a few ghostwriters.