Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is best known for his Mapp and Lucia series of comic novels, which were adapted for television in the 1980s. Benson was born in Berkshire, England, and educated at Marlborough College and King's College, Cambridge. He began writing in his twenties, and his first novel, Dodo, was published in 1893. Benson wrote a number of novels, biographies, and short stories, as well as a number of non-fiction works on archaeology and the supernatural. He was also a prolific letter-writer, and his correspondence with his brother, A.C. Benson, was published in two volumes in 1938. Benson died in 1940, and his ashes were buried in the churchyard of his home village of Rye, East Sussex.
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