Edgar M. (Edgar Meck) Dilley

Born in Philadelphia in 1874, he attended William Penn Charter School and later entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied architecture for a time and took an active part in campus musical life, especially the Glee Club. Archival records at Penn describe him as both a writer and a musician, which fits the range of work published under his name.

Dilley wrote songs and lyrics as well as fiction. His most visible surviving literary work is The Red Fox's Son: A Romance of Bharbazonia (1911), an illustrated historical romance that has remained accessible through public-domain collections. He is also associated with University of Pennsylvania songs and other musical pieces, showing how closely his writing was tied to performance and popular verse.

He died in 1960. Although he is not widely known today, the records that remain suggest a versatile early-20th-century man of letters whose work crossed from collegiate music and songwriting into imaginative long-form storytelling.