13 Facts About Edmund Pearson

Edmund Lester Pearson was an American librarian and writer.

Edmund Pearson was a writer of the "true crime" literary genre.

Edmund Pearson is best known for his account of the notorious Lizzie Borden murder case.

From 1909 to 1914, Edmund Pearson lived in Newburyport and wrote several books.

Edmund Pearson wrote stories based on his childhood in The Believing Years and The Voyage of the Hoppergrass.

Edmund Pearson published some of his columns from the Librarian in The Library and the Librarian, The Librarian at Play, and The Secret Book.

Edmund Pearson wrote book reviews for many publications including The Saturday Review of Literature.

Edmund Pearson wrote three books about books, Books in Black or Red, Queer Books, and Dime Novels.

Edmund Pearson maintained an extensive personal correspondence with the Scottish crime writer, William Roughead, the two writers offering support and encouragement to each other in their chosen field of "matters criminous".

In 1934 Edmund Pearson went to Hollywood to serve as an uncredited writer for the films Bride of Frankenstein and Werewolf of London.

Edmund Pearson died on August 8,1937, at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City of bronchial pneumonia.

Edmund Pearson was buried in the family plot in the Oak Hill Cemetery, in the city of his birth, Newburyport.

Norman D Stevens has been active in keeping alive the writings of Edmond Pearson by collecting a portion of the Librarian column in a book of the same name.