E. Donald (Edmund Donald) Carr

Edmund Donald Carr, usually published as E. Donald Carr, was a 19th-century English clergyman and author. Project Gutenberg identifies him as "Carr, E. Donald (Edmund Donald)", and a parish register reproduced there describes him as B.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Rector of Woolstaston from 1865 to 1900, and notes that he died in June 1900.

He is best known today for A Night in the Snow; or, A Struggle for Life, published under the name Rev. E. Donald Carr. The book is presented as an autobiographical account of being caught in a severe snowstorm while trying to reach his church, and it remains memorable for its plain, gripping picture of survival.

Only a small amount of biographical information is easy to confirm online, but the available record gives a clear impression: Carr was a parish priest who wrote from lived experience, with a direct style that fits the moral and practical tone of Victorian religious writing.