Elleston Trevor (1920–1995)
Auteur de The Quiller Memorandum
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Elleston Trevor
The Pasang Run 3 exemplaires
Heather Hill 2 exemplaires
Forbidden Kingdom 2 exemplaires
Silhouette 1 exemplaire
Quiller sul Bersaglio 1 exemplaire
Last Rites 1 exemplaire
The Flight of the Phoenix [abridged] 1 exemplaire
Squirrel's Island 1 exemplaire
THE FREEBOOTERS, BROUGHT IN DEAD, A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD (MAN/'S BOOK - THREE COMPLETE BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME) (1968) 1 exemplaire
Image in the Dust 1 exemplaire
No último andar 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Man's Book: The Flight of the Phoenix | Hammerhead | Double Exposure (1965) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Het Beste Boek 34: Strijd tegen de duisternis / Hotel in New Orleans / De vlucht van de Phoenix / Dagboek van een… (1967) 2 exemplaires
Prólogo de amor - O voo da fênix - Um pacto com Deus - Fugindo da China vermelha (1965) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Dudley-Smith, Trevor
- Autres noms
- Smith, Caesar
Hall, Adam
Rattray, Simon
Black, Mansell
Burgess, Trevor
Fitzalan, Roger (tout afficher 9)
North, Howard
Scott, Warwick
Stone, Lesley - Date de naissance
- 1920-02-17
- Date de décès
- 1995-07-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Bromley, London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Cave Creek, Arizona, USA
- Cause du décès
- cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Organisations
- Royal Air Force (WWII)
- Prix et distinctions
- Edgar Allan Poe Award, 1966
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 91
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 4,006
- Popularité
- #6,304
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 56
- ISBN
- 461
- Langues
- 10