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Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
1873–1940
A playwright, essayist, and public affairs writer, he brought big historical forces onto the page in works that ranged from verse drama to commentary on war and revolution. His career also reached beyond literature, including teaching and service with the United States Mission to Russia during 1918–1919.
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The Americans
by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
The Saxons: A Drama of Christianity in the North
by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
About the author
Born in 1873, Edwin Davies Schoonmaker was an American writer whose work moved between literature and public affairs. Reliable sources available here identify him as an author and publicist, and Project Gutenberg lists his dramatic works The Saxons and The Americans among the books that remain accessible to modern readers.
His life touched several different worlds. Sources tied to his family history describe him as a lecturer at Transylvania University, and another contemporary-style biographical source notes that he served with the United States Mission to Russia in 1918–1919. That combination of scholarship, travel, and political observation helps explain the wide range of his subjects.
Schoonmaker also wrote nonfiction, including The World Storm and Beyond, showing his interest in the upheavals of the early twentieth century. He died in 1940, leaving behind work that reflects both a dramatist's sense of scale and a commentator's eye for history in motion.