E. J. Rath | |
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Born | 1885 (age 136–137) Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. |
Died | January 28, 1922 36–37) Northwest, Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged
Other names | Edith Rathbone Jacobs Brainerd |
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E.J. Rath is the pseudonym of writer Edith Rathbone Jacobs Brainerd (1885 – January 28, 1922) who was assisted with many of her writing projects by her husband Chauncey Corey Brainerd (April 16, 1874 – January 28, 1922), a Washington D.C. correspondent for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Several of her stories were adapted into plays and films.
She was from Mount Vernon, New York. [1]
Brainerd was her second husband. They married June 4, 1903. [2]
The story "The Heroism of Mr. Peglow" was published in Everybody's Magazine in December 1907. [3]
The couple were killed along with almost 200 others when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington D.C. collapsed under the weight of heavy snow. The event became known as the Knickerbocker Storm and occurred January 27–28, 1922. Politicians, officials, and fellow newspaper reporters paid tribute. He had attended the Peace Conference in Europe.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle published a 36-page tribute. [4]
Her book, The Nervous Wreck, was made into the movie The Nervous Wreck in 1926, starring Harrison Ford and Phyllis Haver. [5]
Note: Rath was killed with her husband in Jan. 1922, but novels under the pseudonym continued to appear.
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