"Pinkie Brown Pinkie Brown is a fictional character, the main character and antihero in Graham Greene's 1938 novel ""Brighton Rock"". In the novel, Brown is portrayed as the 17-year-old leader and enforcer of a small-time gang in the Brighton underworld that runs numbers and protection rackets for Colleoni, the local kingpin. A violent sociopath, he brutalizes and murders people, even his own henchmen, without remorse, and is incapable of feeling love or taking pleasure in life. In the beginning of the novel, he kills Fred Hale, a chronic gambler who assisted a rival gang in dispatching Brown's predecessor; that crime"
"Charles Hamilton (writer) Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (8 August 1876 – 24 December 1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also dealt with other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories (featuring Billy Bunter). Other important pen-names included Martin Clifford (for St Jim's), Owen Conquest (for Rookwood) and Ralph"
"Charles Perrault Charles Perrault (; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales. The best known of his tales include ""Le Petit Chaperon Rouge"" (""Little Red Riding Hood""), ""Cendrillon"" (""Cinderella""), ""Le Chat Botté"" (""Puss in Boots""), ""La Belle au bois Dormant "" (""The Sleeping Beauty"") and ""Barbe Bleue"" (""Bluebeard""). Some of Perrault's versions of old stories have influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later."
"Sydney James Bounds Sydney James Bounds (4 November 1920 – 24 November 2006) was an English author. He wrote as Sydney J. Bounds and S. J. Bounds, as well as under the pen names Clifford Wallace, James Marshall, Earl Ellison and Rex Marlowe. He wrote over forty novels and hundreds of short stories, many published under pseudonyms or anonymously. He was best known for his science fiction, but also wrote horror, Westerns, mysteries and juveniles. Bounds' debut professional sale under his own name appears in 1946 in the first issue of Outlands magazine, the publication of which left Bounds feeling"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"
"correspondent in Italy. While traveling with American soldiers fighting in Italy in 1944, Faust was mortally wounded by shrapnel. Dan Barry Series Ronicky Doone Trilogy Silvertip Series Dr. Kildare Series Tizzo the Firebrand Series Other Novels Max Brand Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Faust (as Max Brand) also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Faust's Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in"
"John Gardner (British writer) John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, was for a period an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time. After a battle with alcohol addiction he wrote his first book, the autobiographical ""Spin the Bottle"", published in 1964. Gardner went on to write"
"John Gardner (British writer) John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, was for a period an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time. After a battle with alcohol addiction he wrote his first book, the autobiographical ""Spin the Bottle"", published in 1964. Gardner went on to write"
"Roger Longrigg Roger Erskine Longrigg (1 May 1929 – 26 February 2000) was a prolific British novelist. As well as publishing some books under his own name, he principally wrote popular novels in a wide range of different styles, using different pseudonyms for each. He wrote the lightly erotic school story, ""The Passion Flower Hotel"", as Rosalind Erskine; Scottish historical novels as Laura Black; spy thrillers as Ivor Drummond; mystery thrillers as Frank Parrish; and black comedies about dysfunctional families as Domini Taylor. His other pseudonyms included Megan Barker and Grania Beckford. He had 55 books published in total. Roger"
"James Anderson (author) James Anderson (1936–2007) was a British author. He is best known for his books featuring Inspector Wilkins. Set in the 1930s, the action of the books takes place in a large fictional British estate, or stately home, belonging to George Henry Aylvin Saunders, the 12th Earl of Burford. The books are a humorous look at the Golden Age type of mystery, which feature whodunnits set during a house party, and contain joking references to Inspector Appleby, the detective created by Michael Innes, or Inspector Alleyn, created by Ngaio Marsh, and to the well-known private detective Hercule Poirot,"
"Paul Cornell Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as ""Doctor Who"" fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. As well as ""Doctor Who"", other British television dramas for which he has written include ""Robin Hood"", ""Primeval"", ""Casualty"", ""Holby City"" and ""Coronation Street"". For US television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set Sherlock Holmes series ""Elementary"". Cornell has also written for a number of British comics, as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in America,"
"By Publishers in February 2010. Brian Parks' Companion to the Romney Marsh series of books was published in July 2006. Monica Edwards' last new title (Badger Valley) was published in 1976. She spent the next twenty years in traveling, reading and studying natural history. Bill Edwards died in October 1990 and Monica in January 1998. Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. She was born in Belper, Derbyshire on"
"A. E. W. Mason Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, ""The Four Feathers"" and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot. His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequently made and remade into films during his lifetime; though many of the silent versions have been lost or forgotten, the Korda productions of ""Fire Over England"" (1937) and"
"Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published ""A Study in Scarlet"", the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic"
"Suzanne Martel Suzanne Chouinard Martel (October 8, 1924 – July 29, 2012) was a French Canadian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Suzanne Chouinard was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard, clerk of Quebec City between 1927 and 1961 and Lady Couillard, who resided at rue de Bernières in Quebec City until 1963. Her younger sister Monique became well known in Quebec as Monique Corriveau, the author of more than twenty novels for teenagers. Amazed by the universe of the novels of Rudyard Kipling (""The Jungle Book""), the Chouinard sisters invented an imaginary country, the Gotal, home to those they call"
"Zenith Jones Brown Zenith Jones Brown (December 8, 1898 – August 25, 1983) was an American crime fiction writer who also wrote for a time in England. She wrote under the pseudonyms David Frome, Leslie Ford, and Brenda Conrad. She is perhaps best known for her novels featuring the fictional Grace Latham and John Primrose, though some of her earlier standalone work has been praised. She was born Zenith Jones in Smith River, California and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. Brown was educated at the University of Washington, and worked there as a teaching assistant from 1921 to 1923. She"
"Emma Orczy Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála ""Emmuska"" Orczy de Orci (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from ""Madame Guillotine"" during the French revolution, establishing the ""hero with a secret identity"" into popular culture. Opening in London's West End on 5 January 1905, ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" became a favourite of British"
"aged 91, and is interred at St Margaret's churchyard there. During the Second World War, Bagnold's brother Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), a precursor of the SAS. Enid Bagnold Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981) was a British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story ""National Velvet"". She was born in Rochester, Kent, daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold and his wife, Ethel (née Alger), and brought up mostly in Jamaica. She went to art school in London, and then worked for Frank Harris, who became her lover. During"
"upset to hear that Sue Townsend has died. One of the warmest, funniest and wisest people I ever met"". Townsend was survived by her husband, four children and ten grandchildren. Sue Townsend Susan Lillian Townsend, FRSL (née Johnstone, 2 April 194610 April 2014), was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other"
"He died in March 2016 at the age of 96. Pentland Hick Edwin Pentland Hick (21 July 1919 – 6 March 2016) was a British entrepreneur, author, publisher, and veteran of World War II. Hick is best known for founding the Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire Hick served with the Eighth Army as a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1939 to 1945. After World War II, he left the army and returned to his hometown of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where he was given shares in the failing Aberdeen Walk Picture House when his"
"George MacDonald George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors, including W. H. Auden, Lloyd Alexander, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit, and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his ""master"": ""Picking up a copy of ""Phantastes"" one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to"
"John Gordon (author) John Gordon (19 November 1925 – 20 November 2017) was an English writer of young-adult supernatural fiction. He wrote fifteen fantasy novels including ""The Giant Under the Snow"", four short story collections, over fifty short stories, and a teenage memoir. Most of Gordon's novels are in the supernatural fantasy and horror genres and feature teenagers in the central roles. The adventures are often set in the Fens, an environment Gordon found mysterious and inspirational in his own adolescence, and contain elements of East Anglian folklore such as the ""doom dog"" – Black Shuck. His work has been"
"Sue Townsend Susan Lillian Townsend, FRSL (née Johnstone, 2 April 194610 April 2014), was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other forms. She enjoyed great success in the 1980s, with her Adrian Mole books selling more copies than any other work of fiction in Britain during the decade. This series, which"
"a sensitive relationship. John Fowles John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired ""The Magus"", an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s ""hippy"" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme"
"He has written novels, non-fiction, audio plays and comic scripts. Some of the notable series and episodes he has worked on include: Paul Cornell Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as ""Doctor Who"" fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. As well as ""Doctor Who"", other British television dramas for which he has written include ""Robin Hood"", ""Primeval"", ""Casualty"", ""Holby City"" and ""Coronation Street"". For US television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set Sherlock Holmes"
"and Benny Green. He claims the works recall a world which contrasts with ""the birth of an age which knew all about its rights but had forgotten its responsibilities"" . Charles Hamilton (writer) Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (8 August 1876 – 24 December 1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also dealt with other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote"
"Max Brand Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Faust (as Max Brand) also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Faust's Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical films by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a radio series, two television series, and comics. Faust's other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, David Manning,"
"Charles Higham (biographer) Charles Higham (pronounced HYE-um), (18 February 1931 – 21 April 2012) was an English author, editor and poet. After moving to Australia in 1954, Higham began a career in journalism, before moving to the United States in 1969. In the United States he became known as a celebrity biographer, mainly of film stars, such as Katharine Hepburn and Errol Flynn. The latter book, among several during Higham's career, was criticized for fabrications. Close friends of another of his subjects, Orson Welles, in particular Peter Bogdanovich, were critical of Higham's interpretation of his career. Born in London, Higham"
"Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. She was born in Belper, Derbyshire on 8 November 1912, the third of four children born to the Reverend Harry and Beryl Newton. The family moved to Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1919. As well as being a vicar, Harry Newton was a diocesan exorcist and often took his children with him when performing exorcisms. In 1927 the family moved to Rye Harbour in"
"Palmer – Ruth Pitter – Tristram Rainey – A. S. J. Tessimond – E. H. Visiak – Anna Wickham John Gawsworth Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He also used the pseudonym Orpheus Scrannel (alludes to Milton's ""Lycidas""). He became the king of Redonda in 1947 and became known as King Juan I. Armstrong grew up in Colville Gardens, Notting Hill, and at number 40"
"George Paston Emily Morse Symonds (1860 - 12 September 1936), known as an author by her pen name George Paston, was a British author and literary critic. Symonds was born on 4 September 1860, in St-Mary-in-the-Marsh parish, Sprowston, near Norwich, England. She was the niece of John Addington Symonds, the respected English poet and literary critic. During her writing career, she became close friends with another eminent literary critic, Arnold Bennett. She died in her home, shortly after her seventy-sixth birthday, of apparent heart failure. Symonds made her first literary breakthrough at age 31, when she anonymously authored a short"
"Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a show at the Egyptian Hall in London. His artistic"
"Honor Maude Honor Courtney Maude (née King; Wem, Shropshire; 10 July 1905 – 15 April 2001, Canberra, Australia) was a British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures, having published Maude & Maude 1958, Maude & Wedgewood 1967, Firth & Maude 1970, Maude 1971, Maude 1978, Emory & Maude 1979, Maude 1984, and Beaglehole & Maude 1989. One of these being ""the absolute bible of string-figure literature"" according to Mark Sherman. She was the wife of British civil servant and anthropologist Henry Evans Maude, who sparked her interest in string figures through lending her a copy of Kathleen Haddon's ""Cat's Cradles from"