Edwin Phillips Granberry Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Edwin Phillips Granberry (18 April 1897 – 5 December 1988) was an American writer, novelist and translator. In 1932, he won the O. Henry Award for Best Short Short Story.Edwin Granberry was born in Meridian, Mississippi and went to Starkville High School in Starkville, Mississippi. He was educated at the University of Florida (from 1916 to 1918), at Columbia University (in 1920) and at Harvard University (from 1922 to 1924).
(1950-71) Was Professor of Creative Writing at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.
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Good friend of novelist Margaret Mitchell. He was so impressed with her novel, "Gone With the Wind", which he compared to Leo 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.