Edwin Granberry


Edwin Phillips Granberry 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, at Columbia University and at Harvard University.

''New York Sun''

Granberry became an English professor at Rollins College in 1933. Granberry was a reviewer of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, which he compared favorably to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Later, Granberry and his wife, Mabel, became friends with Mitchell.

''Buz Sawyer''

Today, Granberry is best known for his 30-year run as a writer on the Roy Crane comic strip Buz Sawyer, which he continued scripting after Crane's death in 1977.

Television

In 1955, Granberry was a scripter for the anthology drama television series Star Tonight.

Novels

In 1932, Granberry won the O. Henry Award for Best Short Short Story, "A Trip to Czardis", which he later expanded into a novel and an unproduced screenplay.