author
Edwin Milton Royle
1862–1942
A prolific American playwright with a gift for popular drama, he is best remembered for The Squaw Man, a stage success that helped shape early Hollywood. His work moved easily between theater and the emerging film world, making him a notable figure in American entertainment at the turn of the 20th century.
2 Audiobooks
The Silent Call
by Edwin Milton Royle
The Squaw Man: A Novel
by Julie Opp, Edwin Milton Royle
About the author
Born in Lexington, Missouri, on March 2, 1862, Edwin Milton Royle became an American playwright whose career reached a wide audience on the stage. More than 30 of his plays were produced, showing his steady presence in commercial theater during a period when popular drama was booming.
His best-known work was The Squaw Man (1905), a hugely successful play that later became one of the earliest important Hollywood films. Its 1914 screen version was co-directed by Cecil B. DeMille, linking Royle's writing to a key moment in American film history.
Royle died in New York City on February 16, 1942. Today he is remembered mainly for the lasting afterlife of The Squaw Man and for helping bridge the worlds of late 19th-century theater and early 20th-century cinema.