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Edward Childs Carpenter
writer
- Born:
- 1872-12-13, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died:
- 1950-06-28, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Philadelphia greeted the arrival of Edward Childs Carpenter on 13 December 1872, and from that day forward the city had a storyteller in its midst. Carpenter’s pen soon traveled farther than any train ticket could take him, spinning the silent-era adventure Captain Courtesy in 1915, polishing the stage comedy The Perfect Gentleman two decades later, and finally handing Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland their witty battle of wits in 1942’s The Major and the Minor. Off the page, he shared his life with fellow writer Helen Alden Knipe. England’s green county of Surrey became his last port of call when he died in Guildford on 28 June 1950.
