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Edith Barnard Delano
1874–1946
A versatile early 20th-century writer, she moved easily between short fiction, novels, plays, and silent-film screenwriting. Her work appeared in popular magazines, and her career stretched from print into the early years of American cinema.
2 Audiobooks
The Land of Content
by Edith Barnard Delano
The way of all earth
by Edith Barnard Delano
About the author
Born in Washington, D.C., in 1874, Edith Barnard Delano was an American writer whose career covered several forms at once: short stories, novels, plays, and screenwriting. She is noted for publishing fiction in magazines including Good Housekeeping, showing how comfortably she wrote for a broad popular audience.
Delano also worked in the silent-film era, with credits connected to films such as The White Pearl (1915), The Glorious Adventure (1918), and The Prodigal Wife (1918). That mix of magazine work and screenwriting makes her a good example of authors who adapted quickly as storytelling moved into new media in the early 1900s.
She died in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1946. Though not widely known today, her range and steady output suggest a writer who was deeply engaged with the reading and entertainment culture of her time.