William Alexander Linn

William Alexander Linn was an American journalist and historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He worked for many years on the staff of the New York Evening Post, rising to managing editor, and was later active in banking in Hackensack, New Jersey. His Story of the Mormons, published in 1902, is a detailed and skeptical history of the Latter-day Saints from Joseph Smith's youth to the year 1901, drawing heavily on early newspapers, affidavits and dissident accounts. He also wrote a biography of Horace Greeley.