Edwin Granberry

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name = Edwin Granberry

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birthdate = April 18, 1897
birthplace = Meridian, Mississippi
deathdate = December 5, 1988
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occupation = Writer
Novelist
Translator
nationality = American
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Edwin Phillips Granberry (18 April 1897-5 December 1988) was an American writer, novelist, and translator.

Early life

Edwin Granberry was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and went to Starkville High School. He was educated at the University of Florida (from 1916 to 1918), at Columbia University (in 1920), and at Harvard University (from 1922-1924).

Career

Granberry became an English professor at Rollins College in 1933.

Granberry was a reviewer (for The New York Sun) of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind", which he compared favorably to "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. [http://times-herald.com/archives/opinion/2002/0610.html] [http://www.galleryofhistory.com/archive/12_2004/author/55643-MARGARET-MITCHELL.htm] He is perhaps best known for his 30-year run as a writer on the Roy Crane comic strip Buz Sawyer.

He also served as a writer for the TV series Star Tonight, in 1955.

Partial bibliography

*"Strangers and Lovers"
*"The Erl King"
*"The Ancient Hunger"
*A Trip to Czardis , which won the Best Short Story of 1932 (O. Henry Memorial Prize)

External links

*imdb name|id=1492861|name=Edwin Granberry
* [http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/write.html]
* [http://www.rollins.edu/EndowedChairs/bachellerendowed.shtml]
* [http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00206/ Edwin Granberry Collection] owned by the University of Mississippi Department of Archives and Special Collections.