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Edwin H. Porter
Best known as the first author to turn the Lizzie Borden case into a book, this Fall River reporter wrote from close to the story and close to the city where it happened. His account remains an early, vivid window into one of America’s most famous murder cases.
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The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders
by Edwin H. Porter
About the author
Edwin H. Porter was an American journalist and publisher remembered for The Fall River Tragedy, an early book about the 1892 Lizzie Borden murders. Sources available here describe him as a police or crime reporter in Fall River, Massachusetts, and note that he was among the first writers to shape the case into book form.
Because so little biographical material is easy to confirm, the safest picture is a simple one: he was a local newspaperman working close to the events he described, and his writing helped preserve the atmosphere, testimony, and public fascination surrounding the Borden case. That closeness gives his work much of its lasting interest.
Records cited in public reference pages indicate that Porter was born around 1865 in Kentucky and died in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1904. A fuller personal portrait is harder to verify, but his name endures through the book that helped define early true-crime writing.