Eden Phillpotts

British novelist, playwright, and poet, born in Mount Aboo, India. Educated in Devon, SW England, UK, he remained associated with the county for most of his life. He was the author of well over 200 books, the best of them being novels about Dartmoor, such as Children of the Mist (1898), The Secret Woman (1905), and Widecombe Fair (1913). With his daughter, Adelaide, he collaborated in two successful comedies, The Farmer's Wife (1924) and Yellow Sands (1926).

Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English novelist, poet, and dramatist.

He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor.

Philpotts also wrote many other books with a Dartmoor setting.

One of his novels, Widecombe Fair, inspired by an annual fair at the village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, provided the scenario for his comic play The Farmer's Wife.

Philpotts was a friend of Agatha Christie, who was a fan of his work and a regular visitor to his home.

Some of his novels about Dartmoor include:

My Devon Year (ISBN 1-84114-136-4) Children of the Mist The River The Thief of Virtue The Whirlwind The Beacon Orphan Dinah The American Prisoner Virgin in Judgment The Three Brothers Children of Men "The Mother"

He also wrote a series of novels each set against the background of a different trade or industry.

Among his other works is The Grey Room, the plot of which is centered on a haunted room in an English manor house.

Although mainly a novelist, he also wrote several plays, the most famous being Yellow Sands.

Late in his long writing career he wrote a few books of interest to science fiction readers, the most noteworthy being Saurus, which involves an alien reptilian being observing human life, somewhat after the fashion in which ethnographers observed peoples deemed "primitive" at that time.