Albert Marrin About The Author 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. Titles by Albert Marrin A Light in the Darkness A Time of Fear Very, Very, Very Dreadful Uprooted FDR and the American Crisis Thomas Paine A Volcano Beneath the Snow Black Gold