author
Francis Perry Elliott
1861–1924
A Nashville-born writer and educator, he mixed light comedy with mystery and romance in popular early-20th-century fiction. His best-known work, The Haunted Pajamas, helped earn him a place among American authors whose stories also reached the stage and silent film.
1 Audiobook
The Haunted Pajamas
by Francis Perry Elliott
About the author
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1861, Francis Perry Elliott was an American writer and educator. Reliable biographical sources describe him as both a teacher and a literary figure, and note that he studied in Nashville before building a career that combined education with writing.
Elliott is remembered for novels and stories with an easy, entertaining tone. The Haunted Pajamas is one of his most noted books, and his novel Pals First went beyond print to the stage and later to film, showing that his storytelling had a broad popular appeal in the early 1900s.
He died in 1924. While he is not as widely read today as some of his contemporaries, his work still offers a glimpse of a lively period in American popular fiction, where humor, sentiment, and theatrical plots often went hand in hand.