Biggers, Earl Derr

Biggers, Earl Derr

▪ American novelist and playwright
born Aug. 26, 1884, Warren, Ohio, U.S.
died April 5, 1933, Pasadena, Calif.

      American novelist and journalist best remembered for the popular literary creation Charlie Chan. A wise Chinese-American detective on the Honolulu police force, Charlie Chan is the protagonist of a series of mystery detective novels (detective story) that spawned popular feature films, radio dramas, and comic strips.

      Biggers attended Harvard University (B.A., 1907) and became a journalist for the Boston Traveler. His successful mystery novel Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913) was adapted into a well-received play and a film. The six novels that feature Chan—The House Without a Key (1925), The Chinese Parrot (1926), Behind That Curtain (1928), The Black Camel (1929), Charlie Chan Carries On (1930), and Keeper of the Keys (1932)—were all initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post. Biggers' other fiction includes the novels Love Insurance (1914), Inside the Lines (1915; with Robert Welles Ritchie), The Agony Column (1916), and Fifty Candles (1926), as well as the collection Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories (1933).

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