| Elleston
Trevor |
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 17 Feb 1920
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Date of death - 1995 |
| Place of birth
- Bromley : Kent |
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Elleston Trevor was born Trevor Dudley-Smith in Bromley, Kent in 1920. He suffered an unhappy childhood as the only son of alcoholic parents.
He was educated at Yardley Court Preparatory School and Sevenoaks School (1932-38).
After leaving school, he joined the RAF and, although he was not allowed to fly because of an eye defect that made him hypersensitive to sunlight, he performed valuable service working as an engineer on Spitfires as well as beginning his literary career writing short stories for the 'Yankee Magazines' published by Gerald G. Swan. It was Swan who published his first novels, all crime stories, starting with Now Try the Morgue (1944), featuring a gunman-gangster character glorying in the name of Raz Berry!
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After marrying Jonquil Burgess, an author of children's books, the couple settled down in Brighton to write and Trevor produced his first best-seller, The Big Pick-Up (1955), a story written as a challenge to J.B. Priestley, who had grumbled that 'all sorts of terrible people are writing war stories for the money'.
He selected the pseudonym Adam Hall from the telephone directory, wrote The Quiller Memorandum in a matter of months and did so well from the sale of the film rights and a subsequent TV series that he was able to move to America and remain there for the rest of his life, completing a total of over 80 books, including titles for children.
Elleston also wrote as Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, T. Dudley-Smith, Roger Fitzalan, Adam Hall, Howard North, Simon Rattray, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, Lesley Stone.
Elleston Trevor died in 1995 aged 75. |
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