author
Edmund Day
1866–1923
Best remembered for energetic Broadway melodramas and comedies, this American playwright helped bring early 20th-century popular theater to life. His name is most often linked with The Round Up, a western stage hit that later reached film audiences too.
1 Audiobook
The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona; Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama
by John Murray, Edmund Day, Marion Mills Miller
About the author
Born in 1866 and remembered today as an American playwright and writer, he is listed by major library and theater sources as the author of a substantial body of work from the popular stage era. Public-domain and catalog records connect him with titles including The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona, while theater databases preserve his Broadway credits.
His best-known work appears to be The Round Up, a story strong enough to outlast its original production and be adapted for the screen. That lasting connection suggests a writer with a feel for vivid action, broad appeal, and the kind of storytelling that worked well in both live theater and later popular entertainment.
Some basic biographical details are not perfectly consistent across online sources, so it is safest to say that he lived from 1866 to 1923, as library-style author records state. Reliable pages found for him do not provide a clear usable portrait image, so no profile photo is included here.