Edmund K. Goldsborough

Edmund K. Goldsborough was an American physician and author, identified in library and public-domain records as living from about 1844 to 1912. Contemporary reporting describes him as a practicing doctor in Washington, D.C., for nearly 35 years, and also as a writer of dialect stories.

He is best known for Ole Mars an' Ole Miss, published in 1900. Booksellers and library records describe the novel as a work of fiction shaped by his impressions of African American life on Maryland's Eastern Shore before the Civil War. The book later entered the public domain and remains the title most closely associated with his name.

Goldsborough died in March 1912. Because reliable biographical information about his personal life is limited online, the public record today presents him most clearly through that combination of professions: a longtime Washington doctor and a writer whose remembered regional material found its way into print.