author
Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller
1847–1876
A gifted North Carolina poet and novelist, he wrote with unusual promise before his life was cut short at just 28. His best-known work, Sea-Gift, is remembered for its lively picture of student life in the post-Civil War South.
2 Audiobooks
The Angel in the Cloud
by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller
Sea-gift: A Novel
by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller
About the author
Born in Louisburg, North Carolina, in 1847, Edwin Wiley Fuller was a poet and novelist whose literary talent showed early. He studied at the University of North Carolina and later at the University of Virginia, where he completed his education.
Fuller is best known for Sea-Gift (1873), a novel noted for its vivid portrayal of university life, and for The Angel in the Cloud. He was part of a generation shaped by the Civil War and Reconstruction, and that experience runs through the tone and setting of his writing.
Although he died in 1876, still in his twenties, Fuller left behind work that kept his name alive in North Carolina literary history. He is remembered as a writer of real promise whose career ended far too soon.