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- Birth nameEdwin Phillips Granberry
- American novelist Edwin Granberry was born in Meridian, MS, in 1897. In 1907 the family moved to Florida, and he later went to college there. His college education was interrupted by a stint in the US Marine Corps as a private in France during World War I. After his discharge he went back to college, and upon graduating he took a job as a teacher (although he had spent much of his life training to be a classical pianist). He spent two years as an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Miami University in Oxford, OH, then attended the drama course at Harvard University in Boston, MA. He held teaching positions at a variety of schools and colleges on the East Coast for the next several years. It was during this period that he wrote and had published several short stories and novels, and translated the works of several French novelists into English. He was Professor of Creative Writing at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, from 1950 to 1972.
He died in Winter Park, FL, in 1988.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Good friend of novelist Margaret Mitchell. He was so impressed with her novel, "Gone With the Wind", which he compared to Lev Tolstoy's "War and Peace", that it sparked a lifetime friendship between the two and convinced Mitchell to agree to accept $50,000 in movie rights for her book pending contract negotiations with producer David O. Selznick.
- (1950-71) Was Professor of Creative Writing at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.
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