author
Porter Emerson Browne
1879–1934
A prolific early-20th-century American playwright, he wrote brisk, popular stage dramas that often went on to reach the screen. His best-known titles include A Fool There Was, The Spendthrift, Chains, and The Bad Man.
2 Audiobooks
The Bad Man: A Novel
by Charles Hanson Towne, Porter Emerson Browne
A Fool There Was
by Porter Emerson Browne
About the author
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, on June 22, 1879, Porter Emerson Browne built his reputation as an American playwright during the height of the Broadway era. His work was known to theatergoers of the 1900s and 1910s, and several of his plays found a second life in film adaptations.
Among the works most often linked to his name are A Fool There Was (1909), The Spendthrift (1910), Chains (1912), and The Bad Man (1920). He is sometimes also described as a novelist, but the clearest available sources consistently emphasize his career in the theater.
Browne died on September 20, 1934, in Norwalk, Connecticut. A suitable verified portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included here.