Edfrid A. Bingham

Born in Oak Hill, Ohio, on December 17, 1870, Edfrid A. Bingham built a career as both a fiction writer and a screenwriter. He is associated with The Heart of Thunder Mountain, a novel that has remained the easiest of his books to find today thanks to its preservation in the public domain.

Bingham also worked steadily in silent-era cinema, writing or adapting screenplays for films such as Earthbound, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Breaking Point, and The Johnstown Flood. That mix of novel writing and screen work places him among the many early 20th-century authors who helped shape stories across both print and film.

He died in New York City on May 2, 1930. Although he is not widely remembered now, his career offers a small but vivid glimpse of the period when American popular storytelling was expanding from magazines and books into the movies.