author
Edward Marshall
1870–1933
A journalist, war correspondent, and novelist, he wrote with a reporter’s eye for action and public life. His books range from the Spanish-American War to early-20th-century popular fiction, giving them an energetic, lived-in feel.
2 Audiobooks
In Old Kentucky
by Edward Marshall, Charles Turner Dazey
The Old Flute-Player: A Romance of To-day
by Edward Marshall, Charles Turner Dazey
About the author
Born in 1869 and commonly cataloged as Edward Marshall (sometimes Davis Edward Marshall), he worked as a journalist and war correspondent as well as a novelist. Modern library and archive records connect him with books such as The Story of the Rough Riders, The Middle Wall, The Master of the House, and The Red Triangle in the War Zone.
His writing career moved between reportage and fiction. That mix helps explain the tone of his books: even when he was telling a dramatic story, he brought along a newspaperman’s sense of momentum, scene, and current events.
He died in 1933. While he is not as widely known now as some of his contemporaries, his work still attracts readers interested in war reporting, turn-of-the-century popular literature, and the fast-moving style of early American magazine and newspaper writers.