David W. (David William) Edwards

David W. Edwards is listed by Project Gutenberg as David W. (David William) Edwards, born 1849. He is known for The Hidden Cabin: a pathetic story in condensed form, published in 1909, and for Up the Grade, which is also associated with his name in library and reader catalogs.

The Hidden Cabin is set around Palomar Mountain in Southern California and follows characters through loss, love, and survival in a demanding natural setting. That backdrop gives his fiction a strong regional flavor, mixing sentiment, adventure, and romance in a way that feels very much of its era.

Very little biographical information about Edwards appears to be widely documented online beyond his name, birth year, and book credits. Because of that, he remains one of those authors best approached through the atmosphere and storytelling of the work itself rather than through a well-recorded life story.