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Edgar Fawcett
1847–1923
A prolific 19th-century American novelist and poet, this New York writer built a reputation on vivid fiction about city life while also venturing into fantasy and the uncanny. Educated at Columbia, he published widely and left behind a large body of work across novels, verse, and drama.
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Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
by Edgar Fawcett
About the author
Born in New York City in 1847, Edgar Fawcett was educated at Columbia College, earning his A.B. in 1867 and later an M.A. He became known as a novelist and poet, and much of his writing drew on the social world of New York, a city that remained central to his work.
Fawcett was a notably prolific author. Reference sources describe him as the writer of more than forty novels, along with volumes of poetry and some plays and dramatic work. While he is often associated with realist fiction, later genre reference works also note that he wrote stories with fantastic and speculative elements.
The dates attached to his life can be confusing in some records, but the strongest biographical sources agree that he died in 1904, not 1923. Today he is remembered as a versatile late-19th-century man of letters whose work ranged from society fiction to more imaginative tales.