Carpenter, Edward Childs

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Carpenter, Edward Childs (1872–1950), playwright. Born in Philadelphia, he became a newspaperman after leaving school and quickly rose to an editorial position. In 1903 he published his first novel and two years later collaborated with John Luther Long on his first play, The Dragon Fly, which was produced in Philadelphia but never reached New York. Over the next three decades, however, more than a dozen of Carpenter's plays did reach New York. The most successful were The Cinderella Man (1916), in which a rich young lady falls in love with a starving artist; The Bachelor Father (1928), in which a man holds a reunion for all his illegitimate children; and Whistling in the Dark (1932), a mystery thriller written with Laurence Gross. Whatever his shortcomings as a dramatist, Carpenter was highly respected for his integrity and was elected as president of both the Dramatists Guild and the Society of American Dramatists and Composers.

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