Franklin Fyles

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Franklin Fyles

1847–1911

A newspaperman turned playwright, he brought a sharp eye for people and a lively sense of the stage to American theater at the end of the nineteenth century. His work includes comedies and popular stage pieces from a busy era of Broadway production.

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Eleven Possible Cases

Eleven Possible Cases

by Edgar Fawcett, Franklin Fyles, Anna Katharine Green, Henry Harland, Ingersoll Lockwood, Joaquin Miller, Kirk Munroe, Brainard Gardner Smith, Frank R. Stockton, Maurice Thompson, A. C. (Andrew Carpenter) Wheeler

About the author

Born in 1847 and dying in 1911, Franklin Fyles was an American writer best remembered as a playwright and theater journalist. He was active in New York’s theatrical world and wrote during a period when commercial theater was expanding quickly and audiences had a huge appetite for new plays.

Before and alongside his dramatic work, he was known as a newspaper man, which helps explain the brisk, observant tone often associated with writers of his generation. Surviving records connect him with plays including Cumberland '61 and with later collections that preserved his stage work.

Although he is not as widely read today as some of his contemporaries, Fyles remains part of the story of American theater in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially as someone who moved between journalism and the stage.