author
Karl Edwin Harriman
1875–1935
A Michigan-born novelist and storyteller, he wrote fiction that ranged from local-color tales to popular adventure books for younger readers. His work captures an early-20th-century taste for brisk plots, lively settings, and readable charm.
1 Audiobook
Ann Arbor Tales
by Karl Edwin Harriman
About the author
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on December 29, 1875, Karl Edwin Harriman was an American author whose books included Ann Arbor Tales and a number of other novels and stories published in the early 1900s. Surviving library and public-domain records place him firmly in that generation of writers who moved easily between magazine-style fiction, regional storytelling, and commercial popular literature.
Harriman is especially remembered today through reprints and digital editions of his work, which have helped keep titles like Ann Arbor Tales available to new readers. His fiction suggests a writer interested in everyday social life as well as fast-moving entertainment, making his body of work a useful window into the reading tastes of his era.
He died in 1935. Although he is not as widely known now as some of his contemporaries, the continued preservation of his books in library collections, public-domain archives, and author records has given his writing a long afterlife.