Eugene T. Sawyer, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Eugene T. Sawyer

American writer

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1846

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1924

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Eugene Taylor Sawyer (November 11, 1846 – October 30, 1924) was a newspaper editor and author of dime novels, particularly for the Nick Carter series.
In an interview conducted in 1902, he professed to having written over 75 examples of that genre, most anonymously.
The New York Times referred to him as "The Prince of Dime Novelists", and the Washington Post as the "King of Dime Novelists", though others were more prolific.
Still, Sawyer claimed to have written three 50,000-word novels in the space of one month and, on another occasion, finished a 60,000-word novel in just two days (while his wife brewed coffee round the clock).Sawyer is one of four authors most commonly associated with the Nick Carter series (the others being John R.
Coryell, Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey, and Thomas C.
Harbaugh, though as many as 23 may have written the books and magazine stories).
As Time magazine noted in Sawyer's obituary, all four died within the space of a two-year period (three in 1924 alone).
Given that Dey committed suicide and Harbaugh died penniless, Sawyer is notable for having been seemingly buoyed rather than crushed by the experience and for balancing the serial novel-writing with newspaper work and other creative pursuits.