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Edgar Fawcett
1847–1904
A prolific 19th-century American novelist and poet, he wrote sharp society fiction as well as a few imaginative tales that still surprise modern readers. His career moved between New York literary life and later years in Europe.
3 Audiobooks
Eleven Possible Cases
by Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler
An Ambitious Woman: A Novel
by Edgar Fawcett
The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel
by Edgar Fawcett
About the author
Born in New York City on May 26, 1847, Edgar Fawcett was educated at Columbia College, where he earned his degree before building a career as a writer. He became known as a novelist and poet, and he also contributed to major magazines of his day.
Fawcett was remarkably productive, publishing dozens of novels along with poems and plays. Much of his fiction was tied to the social and literary world of late 19th-century America, but some of his lesser-known works explored unusual speculative ideas, which has helped keep interest in him alive among readers of early fantasy and science fiction.
He spent much of his life in New York and later lived in Europe. Fawcett died in London on May 2, 1904.