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b. 1856
A lively chronicler of old San Francisco, he wrote with a clear affection for the city’s restaurants, streets, and social life. His best-known work captures the flavor of Bohemian San Francisco with an eye for local history and everyday pleasures.
by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords
by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords
Clarence E. Edwords, also listed as Clarence Edgar Edwords, was an American writer born in 1856. He is best known today for Bohemian San Francisco, a work that has stayed in circulation through projects like Project Gutenberg and later reprints.
His writing is closely tied to San Francisco’s dining, club, and literary culture. Rather than writing in a distant academic style, he focused on the feel of the city and the people who gave it character, which helps his work still read as a vivid snapshot of its time.
Reliable biographical details about his later life are not easy to confirm from the sources found here, so it is safest to remember him mainly through the book itself: a warm, observant portrait of San Francisco in an earlier era.