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Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.[1] His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China.

Earl Derr Biggers
Born	(1884-08-26)August 26, 1884 Warren, Ohio, U.S.
Died	April 5, 1933(1933-04-05) (aged 48) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Occupation	Playwright, novelist
Alma mater	Harvard University
Genre	Fiction, theatre

Biography

The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907, where he was a member of The Lampoon. He worked briefly as a journalist for The Plain Dealer in 1907,[2] and then for the Boston Traveller until 1912, before turning to fiction. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies.

His first novel, Seven Keys to Baldpate, was popular in 1913, and George M. Cohan quickly adapted the novel as a hit Broadway stage play of the same name. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version, one of seven film versions of the play, and a 1935 revival.[3] The novel was also adapted into two films with different titles, House of the Long Shadows and Haunted Honeymoon, but they had essentially equivalent plots.

More than 10 years after Baldpate, Biggers had even greater success with his series of Charlie Chan detective novels. The popularity of Charlie Chan extended even to China, where audiences in Shanghai appreciated the Hollywood films. Chinese companies made films starring this fictional character.[4] Derr Biggers publicly acknowledged the real-life detective Chang Apana as the inspiration for the character of Charlie Chan in his letter to the Honolulu Advertiser of June 28, 1932.[5]

Biggers lived in San Marino, California, and died in a Pasadena, California hospital after suffering a heart attack in Palm Springs, California. He was 48.

The Charlie Chan series

• The House Without a Key (1925)
• The Chinese Parrot (1926)
• Behind That Curtain (1928)
• The Black Camel (1929)
• Charlie Chan Carries On (1930)
• Keeper of the Keys (1932)

Other works

• Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913)
• Love Insurance (1914); film version: One Night in the Tropics (1940)
• Inside the Lines (1915) (with Robert Welles Ritchie)
• The Agony Column (1916) (also published as Second Floor Mystery)
• Fifty Candles (1921)
• Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories (short stories, 1933)

References

External links

• Earl Derr Biggers at IMDb 
• Works by Derr Biggers at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Earl Derr Biggers at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by Earl Derr Biggers at Project Gutenberg of Australia
• Works by or about Earl Derr Biggers at Internet Archive
• Works by Earl Derr Biggers at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Earl Derr Biggers at Open Library
• Play by Derr Biggers on Great War Theatre

На других языках

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[ru] Биггерс, Эрл Дерр

Эрл Дерр Биггерс (англ. Earl Derr Biggers; 26 августа 1884, Уоррен, Огайо, США — 5 апреля 1933, Пасадена, Калифорния, США) — американский писатель и драматург[1], он запомнился прежде всего своими детективными романами о китайском детективе с Гонолулу Чарли Чене и роману «Семь ключей к Болдпейт»[en] (1913), по мотивам которого Джорджем М. Коэном была написана более популярная, нежели первоисточник, пьеса[en].

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