He died in Saint John on November 1, 1995, aged 82 he was survived by his wife. His second wife, Marilyn, served as the first reader of his works, and "Marilyn Ross" was one of his favorite pseudonyms. Ross appeared as himself on the Januepisode of the CBS game show To Tell the Truth. At about this same time, he began writing novels, and found rapid success. In 1960, he married for the second time, to nurse Marilyn Ann Clark. After his wife died in 1959, he returned to Saint John. He married Charlotte McCormack in 1944, and worked for years as an actor, as the manager of an acting company, and in broadcasting. In 1934, he moved to the United States to study. William Edward Daniel Ross was born on November 16, 1912, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, the son of Laura (née Brooks) and William Edward Ross. As Marilyn Ross, he wrote popular Gothic fiction, including a series of novels about the vampire Barnabas Collins based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966–71). He started writing erotic novels as Olin Ross, and Western novels as Dan Roberts and Tex Steele. Ross and Dan Ross, and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms, such as Jane Rossiter, Leslie Ames, Ellen Randolph, Ann Gilmer, Rose Williams, Rose Dana, Clarissa Ross, Marilyn Ross, Jan Daniels, Charlotte McCormack, Ruth Dorset, Miriam Leslie, Dana Ross, Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Diana Randall, Diana Ross, and Marilyn Carter. He wrote popular romances and Gothic fiction as W. He was known for the speed of his writing and was, by some estimates, the most prolific Canadian author ever, though he did not take up fiction until middle age. William Edward Daniel Ross (NovemNovember 1, 1995) was a Canadian actor, playwright, and bestselling writer of more than 300 novels in a variety of genres.
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