George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)
Auteur de Flashman
A propos de l'auteur
Author George MacDonald Fraser was born April 2, 1925 in Carlisle. He was refused entrance to the medical faculty of Glasgow University, so he joined the army in 1943. He served as an infantryman with the 17th Indian Division of the XIVth Army in Burma, a lance corporal and was commissioned in the afficher plus Gordon Highlanders. After the war, he became a sports reporter with the Carlisle Journal; and during this time, he met and married Kathleen Hetherington, a reporter from another paper. He worked as a reporter and sub-editor on the Cumberland News and then moved to Glasgow, in 1953, where he worked at the Glasgow Herald as a features editor and deputy editor. Fraser's first novel was "Flashman" (1969), which was followed by nine sequels, so far, that deal with different venues of the 19th century ranging from Russia, Borneo and China to the Great Plains of the America West. Some of the other titles in the Flashman Papers are "Royal Flash" (1970), "Flashman in the Great Game" (1975), "Flashman and the Redskins" (1982), and "Flashman and the Angel of the Lord" (1994). Some of his non-fiction work includes "The Steel Bonnets" (1971), which is a factual study of the Anglo-Scottish border thieves in the seventeenth century, and "Quartered Safe Out Here" (1992). Fraser has also written a number of screenplays that include "The Three Musketeers" (1973), "Royal Flash" (1975), "Octopussy" (1983), and "Return of the Musketeers" (1989). He has also written a series of short stories about Private McAuslan whose titles include "The General Danced at Dawn" (1970), "McAuslan in the Rough" (1974), and "The Sheik and the Dustbin and other McAuslan Stories" (1988). He died of cancer on January 2, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) 1. George MacDonald Fraser (CK info above) wrote Flashman.
2. George MacDonald (1824-1905) wrote At the Back of the North Wind.
George Milne Fraser is a separate author. Please do not combine.
Séries
Œuvres de George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman 5 exemplaires
Adventure Novels: King Solomon's Mines, Prisoner of Zenda, Under the Red Robe, The Lost World, Beau Geste (Collins… (1995) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
The Sheikh and the Dustbin & Others 1 exemplaire
Levemand til hest 1 exemplaire
Flashman Series 11 Books /Royal Flash/Flashman/Flashmans Lady the Great Game/At the Charge/Flash for Freedom/Angel of… (1982) 1 exemplaire
Crossed Swords 1 exemplaire
Flashman Set - 5 Books 1 exemplaire
FLASHMAN OMNIBUS 1 exemplaire
X Royal Flash (INCOMPLETE) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (1910) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 229 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Nom légal
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Date de naissance
- 1925-04-02
- Date de décès
- 2008-01-02
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Strang, Isle of Man
- Lieux de résidence
- Isle of Man
Carlisle, England, UK (birth) - Études
- The Glasgow Academy, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Professions
- soldier (British Army)
journalist
editor
screenwriter
novelist - Relations
- Fraser, Caro (daughter)
Hetherington, Kathleen (wife) - Organisations
- British Army (WWII)
Glasgow Herald - Prix et distinctions
- Officer, Order of the British Empire (1999)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1998) - Courte biographie
- George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman.
- Notice de désambigüisation
- 1. George MacDonald Fraser (CK info above) wrote Flashman.
2. George MacDonald (1824-1905) wrote At the Back of the North Wind.
George Milne Fraser is a separate author. Please do not combine.
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George MacDonald Fraser à Legacy Libraries (Juillet 2014)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 49
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 17,882
- Popularité
- #1,229
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 338
- ISBN
- 448
- Langues
- 10
- Favoris
- 115
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