Edward A. (Edward Antonio) Paulton

Born in Glasgow on March 23, 1866, Edward Antonio Paulton built a varied writing career that reached across novels, stage comedy, operetta, and musical theater. Surviving catalog and theater records link him to both fiction and performance writing, showing a writer who was comfortable moving between print and the stage.

Among his known books is The American Faust (published in 1890), and he is also credited as a co-author of Niobe, All Smiles, a farcical comedy that remained visible enough to be preserved and later released through Project Gutenberg. Broadway database records also credit him in multiple roles — including writer, lyricist, composer, source author, and director — on productions such as The Queen of the Movies, My Lady's Glove, Madam Moselle, Two Is Company, and Flo-Flo.

IMDb’s biographical listing says he was born in Glasgow and died in Hollywood, California, on March 20, 1939. While not as widely remembered today as some of his contemporaries, the record that remains suggests a busy and adaptable professional writer whose career bridged popular fiction and commercial theater on both sides of the Atlantic.