Albert Marrin, author portrait

Albert Marrin

Albert Marrin is a much-decorated historian and writer whose most recent book, Terror of the Spanish Main, was called "addictive reading" in The Horn Book. He lives in Riverdale, New York.
When Forests Burn
A Light in the Darkness
A Time of Fear
Very, Very, Very Dreadful
Uprooted
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
FDR and the American Crisis
Thomas Paine
Oh Rats!
A Volcano Beneath the Snow
Black Gold
Years of Dust
Old Hickory:Andrew Jackson and the American People

Books

When Forests Burn
A Light in the Darkness
A Time of Fear
Very, Very, Very Dreadful
Uprooted
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
FDR and the American Crisis
Thomas Paine
Oh Rats!
A Volcano Beneath the Snow
Black Gold
Years of Dust
Old Hickory:Andrew Jackson and the American People

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