author
Charles Turner Dazey
1855–1938
Best remembered for the hugely popular stage hit In Old Kentucky, this American playwright helped bring melodrama and regional color to late 19th-century theater. His work also reached early silent film audiences through several screen adaptations.
2 Audiobooks
In Old Kentucky
by Edward Marshall, Charles Turner Dazey
The Old Flute-Player: A Romance of To-day
by Edward Marshall, Charles Turner Dazey
About the author
Born in Lima, Illinois, in 1855, Charles Turner Dazey was an American writer and playwright who studied in Kentucky and graduated from Harvard University in 1881.
He is most closely associated with In Old Kentucky (1893), a play that became an enduring success on the American stage. He also wrote other dramas, including The War of Wealth, and his work later fed into the silent-film era through screen versions and related credits.
Dazey died in Quincy, Illinois, in 1938. Though he is not as widely read today as some of his contemporaries, he remains a notable figure in American theatrical history for writing one of the period's most successful popular plays.