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Edgar Franklin
1879–1958
Known mostly by the pen name Edgar Franklin, this early 20th-century American writer moved easily between magazine fiction, humorous stories, and screen work. His books and credited stories show a career shaped by popular entertainment in print and film.
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In and Out
by Edgar Franklin
Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures
by Edgar Franklin
About the author
Edgar Franklin was the working name of Edgar Franklin Stearns (1879–1958), an American writer whose work appeared in popular magazines and later in film-related credits. Reference sources identify him as the son of writer Frank Albert Stearns, who published as Fred Thorpe.
His best-known early book is Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures (1904), a comic collection built around an inventor whose ideas repeatedly go wrong. Bibliographic records also connect him with later works such as White Collars, and speculative-fiction reference sources note that he published in magazines including The Argosy and other Munsey titles.
Some of Franklin's fiction also reached the screen: his story "The Adopted Father" was adapted into the 1933 film The Working Man. Reliable sources found for this request confirm his writing career and dates, but they did not provide a clear, suitable portrait photograph to use here.