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Albert W. Aiken (1846–1894) was an American actor and writer of plays and dime novels. He was a prolific writer of pulp fiction for Beadle and Adams.

His plays included The Witches of New York.

Aiken was the younger brother of George Aiken, best known for his popular adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the stage, and was also a cousin of the famous clown George Fox.

References

1. ^ The House of Beadle and Adams, Northern Illinois University Libraries, Retrieved 6 August 2020
2. Pecek, Louis George The Beadle Story Papers, 1870-1897, p. 52 (1959)
3. (8 November 1869). A New Star, Wheeling Daily Register, p. 3, col. 3.
4. (7 November 1872). Albert W. Aiken, Daily State Journal (Alexandria, Virginia), p. 1, col. 4.

External links

• The Brigand Captain, or The Prairie Pathfinder (1877) (via archive.org)
• Gold Dan, or Dick Talbot in Utah (1898) (via archive.org)
• Works by Albert W. Aiken at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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