Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Oscar Wilde.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace oli hyvin tuottelias brittiläinen jännityskirjailija, toimittaja, näytelmäkirjailija, sotakirjeenvaihtaja ja elokuvakäsikirjoittaja. Hän kirjoitti 957 lyhyttä tarinaa, 175 romaania, 18 näytelmää ja laskemattoman määrän artikkeleita sanoma- ja aikakauslehtiin. Yksistään vuonna 1929 julkaistiin 12 Wallacen romaania. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty 28 kielelle, ja niistä on tehty yli 160 elokuvaa.
Edith Elmer Wood was an American advocate for public health and housing reform. Wood was a proponent of the construction of public housing, arguing that overcrowded slums and their associated communicable diseases were not the fault of immoral tenants or landlords, but a systemic economic problem needing solutions at the governmental level. She served in leadership roles for several housing organizations and was an advisor to the United States Housing Authority; her advocacy significantly impacted on the housing reforms implemented in the 1930s and 1940s through the New Deal and the Fair Deal.
Edith Ogden Harrison was a writer of children's books and fairy tales in the early decades of the 20th century. She was the wife of Carter Harrison, Jr., five-term mayor of Chicago.
Edith Rickert (1871–1938) was a medieval scholar at the University of Chicago. Her work includes the Chaucer Life-Records and the eight-volume Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940).
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
