author
Julie Opp
1871–1921
Remembered today as both a stage star and a novelist, she moved easily between theater and fiction in the early 1900s. Her best-known book, The Squaw Man, grew out of a popular play and captures the melodramatic style of its era.
1 Audiobook
The Squaw Man: A Novel
by Julie Opp, Edwin Milton Royle
About the author
Born in New York on January 28, 1871, Julie Opp became a successful American stage actress who performed in both the United States and Britain. She was especially known on the late 19th- and early 20th-century stage, and her public career made her a familiar name to theater audiences of her time.
She also wrote fiction. Her best-known work is The Squaw Man (1906), a novel version of the play by Edwin Milton Royle, published as Julie Opp Faversham after her marriage to actor William Faversham. That link between popular theater and popular fiction gives her work a strong sense of the dramatic tastes of the period.
Opp died in New York on April 9, 1921. Though she is often remembered first for her acting career, her surviving books offer a glimpse of how performers of her generation sometimes carried their storytelling from the stage onto the page.