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Maurice Francis Egan

About the Author

Maurice Francis Egan (1852-1924) was an American novelist, journalist, critic, teacher, and diplomat.  The United States Ambassador to Denmark, he was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Egan’s best-known novels were The Disappearance of John Longworthy (1890), The Wiles of Sexton Maginnis (1909), and The Ivy Hedge (1914).  An autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life, appeared in 1924.