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Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China.
Publication Order of Anthologies. Outright distinguished, stellar in his craft, and worth his salt, Earl Derr Biggers was an American word-slinger whose bibliography awed and inspired bibliophiles and filmmakers in equal measure.
Earl Derr Biggers (born Aug. 26, 1884, Warren, Ohio, U.S.—died April 5, 1933, Pasadena, Calif.) was an American novelist and journalist best remembered for the popular literary creation Charlie Chan.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Any study of Charlie Chan must begin with author Earl Derr Biggers, who brought the exploits of the great detective to life in 1925. Biggers stated on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation from Harvard University in 1932, “I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer.
Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on Hawaiian detective Chang Apana. The benevolent and heroic Chan was conceived as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes and villains like Fu Manchu.
Book 1. The House Without a Key. by Earl Derr Biggers. 3.83 · 2,086 Ratings · 286 Reviews · published 1925 · 52 editions. The House Without a Key is the classic novel in wh…. Want to Read.
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Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio on August 24, 1884. Years later, while attending Harvard University, Biggers showed little passion for the classics, preferring instead writers such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis.
