Edgar Franklin

Born in New York City on February 3, 1879, Edgar Franklin was the pen name of Edgar Franklin Stearns. Reference listings identify him as an American writer, and film records show that his stories and screen work were adapted for the screen across the silent era and into the 1930s.

He is especially associated with films such as The Working Man (1933), Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938), and I Can Explain (1922). Bibliographic records also point to a substantial body of shorter fiction, suggesting a career built not just on novels or screenplays, but on steady, versatile storytelling for magazines and popular entertainment.

Franklin died in November 1958. One small biographical detail that survives is literary in itself: he was the son of writer Franklin Albert Stearns.