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.
