At Columbia, he was a member of the Fraternity of Delta Phi[3] and the Philolexian Society.

Fawcett also wrote a parody of the King Arthur legends entitled The New King Arthur: An Opera Without Music (1885),[citation needed] as well as numerous works for children, such as Short Poems for Short People (1872).

[citation needed] "The Man from Mars" was published in the June 1892 issue of Short Stories: A Magazine of Select Fiction.

[6] Stanley R. Harrison's study, entitled Edgar Fawcett, was published in 1972.

[citation needed] Fawcett spent many of the last years of his life in London,[1] where he died on May 2, 1904.