Edward Childs Carpenter

Edward Childs Carpenter (1872–1950) was an American writer of novels and plays and a stage director in the early through mid-20th century.

Biography Carpenter was born December 13, 1872 (1874 per his gravestone ) at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

After leaving school, Carpenter became a newspaperman and quickly rose to the position of financial editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1903 he published his first novel, The Chasm, co-authored with Reginald Wright Kauffman, which received favorable reviews. On June 1, 1907, Carpenter married the illustrator Helen Alden Knipe; later they collaborated as writers.

Carpenter began writing plays while working at the Inquirer from 1905 to 1916, beginning with The Dragon Fly in 1905 (with Luther Long), followed by a dramatization of his own 1906 novel Captain Courtesy, and The Players and The Lambs clubs in New York City.

Carpenter died in Torrington, Connecticut on October 7, 1950.

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