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Edwin Asa Dix
1860–1911
A Princeton-educated American writer and editor, he moved between fiction, travel writing, and history at the turn of the 20th century. He is especially remembered for books such as Champlain, the Founder of New France and for a career that linked journalism, literature, and wide travel.
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A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
by Edwin Asa Dix
About the author
Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1860, he wrote under the pen name Edwin Asa Dix. He studied at Newark Latin School and graduated from Princeton University in 1881, where he was noted for his academic distinction.
His career ranged across novels, travel writing, magazine work, and biography. He served as literary editor of The Churchman, traveled widely in the early 1890s, and published works including Old Bowen's Legacy and Champlain, the Founder of New France, showing an interest in both storytelling and historical subjects.
He died in New York City in 1911. Though not widely known today, his books reflect the energetic literary culture of his era and the broad interests of an author comfortable writing about places, people, and the past.