Lew Merrill, pseudonym of Victor Rousseau Emanuel (England, Jan. 2 1879 - Tarryton, NY, Apr. 6 1960), a pulp fiction writer in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He was primarily known for his Frozen North and Western serials such as The Home Trail or Lee of the Northwest Mounted. He also developed the successful series The Surgeon of Souls and cooperated to the development of Jim Anthony, Super Detective. In the last years of his career, he worked for the spicy pulp providing hundreds of short stories.