Knoblock
EDWARD, an American playwright. He was born in New York in 1874, and was educated at Harvard.
In 1896 he went to Paris and studied the drama there for a year, later going to London where he wrote plays. The first of his works to be produced was an adaptation from the French, "The Partikler Pet." Others have been: "The Shulamite" (with Claude Askew); "The Cottage in the Air," "The Faun," "Kismet," "Milestones" (with Arnold Bennett); "Discovering America," "The Headmaster" (with Wilfred T. Coleby); "My Lady's Dress," "Marie-Odile" "Mouse," "Paganini," "Home on Leave." ',, In 1916 he became a naturalized British subject and lieutenant in the British service.