Definition of W. Clark Russell

What does the word W. Clark Russell mean?

• part of speech: noun

  An English-American novelist; born (of English parentage) in New York city, Feb. 24, 1844. He spent much of his early life at sea, and afterwards settled at Ramsgate, England. He has published a great number of sea stories and novels, among which are: "The Wreck of the Grosvenor" (1878); "A Sailor's Sweetheart" (1880); "My Watch Below" (1883); "A Sea Queen" (1883); "Jack's Courtship" (1884); "A Strange Voyage" (1885); "The Frozen Pirate" (1887); "The Death Ship" (1888); "Marooned" (1889); "The Romance of Jenny Harlowe" (1889); and "The Good Ship Mohock" (1895); "Abandoned"; "Wrong Side Out" (1904).