Earl Derr Biggers
Earl Derr Biggers | |
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| Born | August 26, 1884 Warren, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | April 5, 1933 (aged 48) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Playwright, novelist |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Genre | Fiction, theatre |
| Spouse |
Eleanor Ladd (m. 1914) |
| Children | 1 (Robert) |
Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American
Biography
The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in
His first novel, Seven Keys to Baldpate, was published in 1913, and George M. Cohan quickly adapted the novel as a hit Broadway stage play of the same name. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version, one of seven film versions of the play, and a 1935 revival.[3] The novel was also adapted into two films with different titles, House of the Long Shadows and Haunted Honeymoon, but they had essentially equivalent plots.[citation needed]
On the day that his first novel was accepted for publication, Biggers proposed to Eleanor Ladd, his girlfriend and fellow writer at the
A decade later, Biggers had even greater success with his series of
Biggers lived in San Marino, California, and died in a Pasadena, California hospital after suffering a heart attack in Palm Springs, California. He was 48.
The Charlie Chan series
- The House Without a Key (1925)
- The Chinese Parrot (1926)
- Behind That Curtain (1928)
- The Black Camel (1929)
- Charlie Chan Carries On (1930)
- Keeper of the Keys (1932)
Other works
- Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913)
- Love Insurance (1914); film version: One Night in the Tropics (1940)
- Inside the Lines (1915) (with Robert Welles Ritchie)
- The Agony Column (1916) (also published as Second Floor Mystery)
- Fifty Candles (1921)
- Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories (short stories, 1933)
References
- ^ "THE SCREEN". The New York Times. July 4, 1931.
- ISBN 9781578601912. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ^ Warburton, Eileen. "Keeper of the Keys to Old Broadway: Geroge (sic) M. Cohan's Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913)" Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, 2nd Story Theatre, January 32, 2014, accessed October 14, 2014. See also "Play Reviews for Seven Keys to Baldpate" Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, 2nd Story Theatre, accessed October 14, 2014
- ^ Ohio Reading Road Trip, https://www.orrt.org/biggers/
- ^ "Charlie Chan in China" Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine The Chinese Mirror [n.d.].
- ^ "The Real Charlie Chan", featurette on: Charlie Chan in Egypt (DVD), 20th Century Fox, 2006.
External links
- Works by Earl Derr Biggers in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
- Works by Derr Biggers at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Earl Derr Biggers at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by Earl Derr Biggers at Project Gutenberg of Australia
- Works by or about Earl Derr Biggers at Internet Archive
- Works by Earl Derr Biggers at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by Earl Derr Biggers at Open Library
- Earl Derr Biggers at IMDb
- Play by Derr Biggers on Great War Theatre
