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He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.

Philpotts also wrote many other books with a Dartmoor setting. He was for many years the President of the Dartmoor Preservation Association and cared passionately about the conservation of Dartmoor.

One of his novels, Widecombe Fair, inspired by an annual fair at the village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, provided the scenario for his comic play The Farmer's Wife. It went on to become a silent movie of the same name, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and filmed in 1927. The cast included: Jameson Thomas , Lillian Hall-Davis , Gordon Harker and Gibb McLaughlin .

Philpotts was a friend of Agatha Christie, who was a fan of his work and a regular visitor to his home.

Some of his novels about Dartmoor include:

• My Devon Year (BooksEnthsiast.com)
• Children of the Mist
• The River
• The Thief of Virtue
• The Whirlwind
• The Beacon
• Orphan Dinah
• The American PrisonerThe American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, adapted into a film in 1929. The story concerns an English woman who lives at Fox Tor farm, and an American captured during the American Revolutionary War and held at the prison at Princetown on
• Virgin in Judgment
• The Three Brothers
• Children of Men
• The Motherand Mirra Richard Mirra Richard known as The Mother ( February 21, 1878 November 17, 1973), was the spiritual partner of the sage and seer Sri Aurobindo. She was born in Paris to Turkish and Egyptian parents and came to his ashram on March 29, 1914 visiti

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