A Black Adonis

Linn Boyd Porter (1851-1916) was an American novelist of Cambridge, MA; born in 1851; died in 1916. He was the author of numerous sensational novels, published under the pseudonym of “Albert Ross.” Among the most popular are: ‘Thou Shalt Not’ (1889); ‘Speaking of Ellen’ (1890); ‘Out of Wedlock’ (1894); ‘Love Gone Astray’; ‘Stranger than Fiction’; ‘Riverfall.’