Edgar M. (Edgar Meck) Dilley

Edgar Meck Dilley was an American writer, songwriter, and reporter born in 1874. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1895, where he studied architecture, took part in the Glee Club, and wrote the lyrics to "Hail, Pennsylvania", the university’s alma mater.

Archival records describe him as a versatile working writer whose papers include novels, short fiction, plays, operas, poems, lyrics, and musical scores. He is also associated with The Red Fox's Son: A Romance of Bharbazonia, the work most commonly available under his name today.

Dilley later lived in Florida as well as Pennsylvania, and he died in 1960. Even though he is not widely known now, the archives around his work suggest a restless, wide-ranging creative career that blended music, storytelling, and everyday literary work.