Noel B. Gerson
Noel Bertram Gerson (1914-1988) was an American author of largely historical fiction and non-fiction. An extremely prolific author, he wrote many biographies and biographical novels about many historical figures, such as Theodore Roosevelt, John Hancock, Sam Houston, Andrew Johnson, Henry Hudson, Mary Shelley, Captain John Smith and many others. He also wrote Western fiction under the house names Donald Clayton Porter and Dana Fuller Ross. His novels 55 Days at Peking and The Naked Maja were adapted to film.