author
Edith Barnard Delano
1874–1946
A versatile early 20th-century American writer, she moved easily between short stories, novels, plays, and silent-film screenwriting. Her work appeared in popular magazines and often turned sharp, lively attention to modern relationships and social change.
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., on December 14, 1874, Edith Barnard Delano built a varied writing career that reached readers in magazines, books, the theater, and early cinema. She is remembered as a short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose work circulated widely in the years when mass-market magazines were shaping American popular fiction.
Delano published fiction in well-known periodicals including Good Housekeeping, and several of her stories and novels were adapted for silent films. Credits connected with her name include The White Pearl, The Glorious Adventure, and The Prodigal Wife, showing how readily her storytelling crossed from print into the fast-growing movie industry.
She died on September 7, 1946, in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts. Today, she is of special interest to readers who enjoy rediscovering magazine fiction and the work of women writers who helped connect literary culture, popular entertainment, and early Hollywood.