Salisbury Field

Born in Indianapolis in 1878, Edward Salisbury Field Jr. was an American author, playwright, poet, artist, and journalist. Early in his career he worked for William Randolph Hearst's newspapers, contributing drawings under the pen name "Childe Harold," and he built a reputation as a versatile writer with a knack for humor and light social comedy.

Field wrote poetry and fiction as well as plays, but his best-known work was Twin Beds, first published in 1913 and later adapted for the stage and screen more than once. Other books credited to him include The Quest, and Other Poems, A Six-Cylinder Courtship, Cupid's Understudy, and The Sapphire Bracelet, showing how comfortably he worked across different forms.

His personal life was unusual and often noted alongside his writing career. He became closely connected to the family of Robert Louis Stevenson, later marrying Stevenson's stepdaughter Isobel Osbourne. In later years he settled in Southern California, became successful in real estate, and lived at Zaca Lake near Los Olivos, where he died in 1936.