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.
