{{short description|American dramatist (1869–1924)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{infobox writer |name=Edward Peple |image=Edward Peple 001.JPG |birth_name=Edward Henry Peple |birth_date={{birth date|1869|8|10}} |birth_place=Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1924|7|28|1869|8|10}} |death_place=New York City, U.S. |resting_place=Hollywood Cemetery<br />Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |occupation=Playwright }} '''Edward Henry Peple''' (August 10, 1869 – July 28, 1924) was an American playwright known for his comedies and farces. He was perhaps best remembered for the plays ''The Prince Chap,'' ''The Littlest Rebel'' and ''A Pair of Sixes.''
==Biography== Born in Richmond, Virginia, Peple was educated John S. McGuire's academy in Richmond. He trained and worked as a lawyer, mainly with the American Bridge Company until 1912. In 1895, he moved to New Jersey. His first play was ''A Broken Rose''. His play ''The Prince Chain'' opened in 1895 and ran for two seasons with Cyril Scott playing the lead.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bTABAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22+peple+edward%22+1869&pg=PA428 Herringshaw, Thomas William. 1914. p. 428. ''Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography'']. Retrieved May 11, 2014.</ref><ref>''Who's Who on the Stage''. 2nd ed. 1908.</ref><ref name= "NYT">Edward H. Peple Dead. ''The New York Times''. July 29, 1924. p. 15.</ref>
Peple died on the morning of July 28, 1924, at his residence in the Hotel Royalton after suffering a heart attack the evening before.<ref name= "NYT" /> He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/richmond-times-dispatch-edward-h-peple/166797776/ |title=Edward H. Peple |date=1924-07-30 |newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-02-27}}{{Open access}}</ref>
==Works== '''Plays''' *''A Broken Rosary'' *''[https://archive.org/details/princechapcomedy00pepl The Prince Chap]'', New York : S. French 1904 *''The Love Route'' *''The Silver Girl'' *''Semiramis'', 1907 *''[https://archive.org/details/littlestrebelpla00pepliala The Littlest Rebel]'' New York : S. French 1911 *''A Pair of Sixes'', 1914
'''Books''' *''A Night Out'', 1909 *''[https://archive.org/details/littlestrebel00pepl The Littlest Rebel ]'' New York, Moffat, Yard 1911
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==External links== {{Commons category|Edward Peple}} * {{IBDB name|5302}} * {{IMDb name|nm0672540}} * {{isfdb name|id=238429|name=Edward Peple}} * {{Gutenberg author |id=3002| name=Edward Peple}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Edward Henry Peple}} * {{Librivox author |id=8616}}
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