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Franklin Fyles
1847–1911
A longtime New York drama critic who also wrote plays and stories, he moved easily between journalism and the stage. His career offers a lively glimpse of American theater at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Eleven Possible Cases
by Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler
About the author
Born in Troy, New York, in November 1847, Franklin Fyles built his career in newspapers before becoming a familiar name in theater writing. Sources from The Lambs’ Archives and the Walt Whitman Archive describe him as a writer and editor who spent decades connected to the New York stage.
He is best remembered as the dramatic critic of the New York Sun, a role he held for many years, and as a playwright who collaborated on works including The Girl I Left Behind Me. He also wrote short fiction and published The Theatre and Its People in 1900, showing how closely his journalism and creative work were linked.
Fyles died in New York City on July 4, 1911. Though not widely known today, his work sits at an interesting crossroads of American newspaper culture and popular theater.