Elleston Trevor (1920–1995)
Autore di The Quiller Memorandum
Sull'Autore
Author Trevor Dudley-Smith was born in Kent, England on February 17, 1920. He attended Yardley Court Preparatory School and Sevenoaks School. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. After the war, he started writing full-time. He lived in Spain and France before mostra altro moving to the United States and settling in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1946 he used the pseudonym Elleston Trevor for a non-mystery book, and later made it his legal name. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Howard North, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, and Lesley Stone. Even though he wrote thrillers, mysteries, plays, juvenile novels, and short stories, his best-known works are The Flight of the Phoenix written as Elleston Trevor and the series about British secret agent Quiller written as Adam Hall. In 1965, he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for The Quiller Memorandum. This book was made into a 1967 movie starring George Segal and Alec Guinness. He died of cancer on July 21, 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Elleston Trevor
The Pasang Run 3 copie
Heather Hill 2 copie
Forbidden Kingdom 2 copie
Silhouette 1 copia
Quiller sul Bersaglio 1 copia
Last Rites 1 copia
Squirrel's Island 1 copia
THE FREEBOOTERS, BROUGHT IN DEAD, A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD (MAN/'S BOOK - THREE COMPLETE BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME) (1968) 1 copia
Image in the Dust 1 copia
No último andar 1 copia
Opere correlate
Man's Book: The Flight of the Phoenix | Hammerhead | Double Exposure (1965) — Collaboratore; Collaboratore — 3 copie
Het Beste Boek 34: Strijd tegen de duisternis / Hotel in New Orleans / De vlucht van de Phoenix / Dagboek van een… (1967) 2 copie
Prólogo de amor - O voo da fênix - Um pacto com Deus - Fugindo da China vermelha (1965) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Dudley-Smith, Trevor (birth)
- Altri nomi
- Smith, Caesar
Hall, Adam
Rattray, Simon
Black, Mansell
Burgess, Trevor
Fitzalan, Roger (mostra tutto 9)
North, Howard
Scott, Warwick
Stone, Lesley - Data di nascita
- 1920-02-17
- Data di morte
- 1995-07-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Bromley, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Cave Creek, Arizona, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer
- Luogo di residenza
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Organizzazioni
- Royal Air Force (WWII)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Edgar Allan Poe Award (1965)
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1965)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 91
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 4,006
- Popolarità
- #6,304
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 56
- ISBN
- 461
- Lingue
- 10