Samuel Shellabarger (18 May 1888 – 21 March 1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels.
Born 18 May 1888 in Washington, D.C., Shellabarger was orphaned in infancy, upon the death of both his father Robert and his mother Elizabeth, in January 1889.
The younger Samuel Shellabarger's travels with his grandfather would prove invaluable in the provision of background material for the former's historical novels.
In 1915 he married Vivan Georgia Lovegrove Borg whom he had met the year before during a vacation in Sweden.
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.