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Creasey, John
The British author John Creasey has been described as a productive literary phenomenon. According to the experts, around 530 novels have been published under his own name and 28 different pseudonyms. In 1937 alone, he published 29 new titles. He was best known for his crime stories, but he also wrote spy and agent thrillers, science fiction, westerns, romances, adventure stories and about 40...
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Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
The Irish author Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was a major celebrity in the first half of the 20th century. He belonged to one of the oldest dignities in the peerage of Ireland . The family seat, Dunsany Castle, County Meath , goes back to the 12t century and is known as the oldest still occupied building in Ireland. The 18th Baron was something of a Renaissance man....
