Franklyn Everett Fitch

Franklyn Everett Fitch was an American writer best known as the coauthor, with Royal Dixon, of nature books including The Human Side of Trees (1917) and Personality of Plants. The surviving public record on him is quite slim, but library and book-history sources consistently connect his name with these popular works on the natural world.

His writing is remembered for presenting trees and plants in a vivid, approachable way for everyday readers rather than as strictly technical science. That style helped make subjects like botany feel personal and imaginative, which is part of why his books have continued to circulate through public-domain and reprint editions.

Because reliable biographical information appears to be limited, many details of Fitch's life are unclear in widely available sources. What stands out most clearly is the work itself: engaging early nature writing that invited readers to look at the plant world with a little more attention and wonder.