Edwin Wiley Fuller (1847-1876) was a poet and a novelist. He was born in Louisburg, North Carolina. He earned his degree from the University of Virginia in 1868. In 1866, he was one of the sophomore declaimers at commencement. Although he wrote some verse before entering the university, his first published ones were the poems The Village on the Tar and Requiescam, which appeared in the University Magazine at Chapel Hill. Later, other poems were published such as: The Angel in the Cloud and a short story, The Cat and the Corpse in the University of Virginia Magazine. Fuller's novel Sea-Gift (1873) was not widely known until after his death. Its treatment of sensitive sides of southern life offended many North Carolinians. Fuller was elected, first, a town commissioner, next, mayor of Louisburg, and, finally, a Franklin County commissioner.