Edfrid A. Bingham

Born in Oak Hill, Ohio, on December 17, 1870, he built a career as a writer during the early decades of the 20th century. Reliable film and library records connect him both to published fiction and to the fast-growing silent film industry.

He is associated with the 1916 novel The Heart of Thunder Mountain, a frontier story that has remained available through public-domain library projects. In film, he is credited as a writer on a range of silent features, including The Glimpses of the Moon (1923), The Breaking Point (1924), and The Johnstown Flood (1926), showing how comfortably he worked with literary adaptation and popular screen drama.

He died in New York City on May 2, 1930. Although not widely known now, his career offers a glimpse of a period when writers could move between books, magazine-style storytelling, and the young American movie business.