Edgar John Brandon

Edgar John Brandon is Mary Alice Brandon's father. He was a jeweler and a pearl trader. He was married to Lillian Brandon and they had two children: Mary Alice Brandon (born 1901, later to become Alice Cullen) and Cynthia Brandon (born 1910). They lived in Biloxi, Mississippi.

He had his wife murdered and remarried a blonde Yankee from Illinois, Anna-Marie Brandon. When Mary Alice saw the truth in a vision, he had her committed to a mental asylum.

He was mentioned in Stephenie Meyer's The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide and features in the short film Twilight Storytellers: The Mary Alice Brandon File in which he is portrayed by John Emmet Tracy.