Maturin Murray Ballou (1820 - 1895) was an American journalist, editor, historian and author. He was an editor of Gleason's Pictorial and Ballou's Monthly and in 1872 became editor-in-chief of the Boston Daily Globe, of which he was one of the founders. He was a publisher of pulp dime novels, many of which he wrote himself under the pseudonym "Lieutenant Murray. " Works include: The Gipsy Daughter (1851), The Circassian Slave (1851), The Heart's Secret (1852), A History of Cuba (1854), The Duke'
...s Prize (1855), The Sea Witch (185? ) and Due South; or, Cuba Past and Present (1885).
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