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Title
The book of forgotten authors
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Forgotten authors
Type
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Monograph
Subject
Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966
Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Armstrong, Charlotte, 1905-1969
Baker, Frank, 1908-1983
Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894
Baron, Alexander, 1917-1999
Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004
Blanch, Lesley
Bonfiglioli, Kyril
Borneman, Ernest, 1915-1995
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994
Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915
Brahms, Caryl, 1901-1982
Branch, Pamela, 1920-1967
Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995
Burke, Thomas, 1886-1945
Buzzati, Dino, 1906-1972
Carlon, Patricia, 1927-2002
Comyns, Barbara, 1907-1992
Carr, John Dickson, 1906-1977
Charteris, Leslie, 1907-1993
Christopher, John, 1922-2012
Collier, John, 1901-1980
Collins, Norman, 1907-1982
Condon, Richard
Crispin, Edmund, 1921-1978
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943
Dennis, Patrick, 1921-1976
Durgnat, Raymond
Erskine, Rosalind, 1929-2000
Evans, Christopher Riche
Finney, Jack
Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926
Fleming, Peter, 1907-1971
Fletcher, Lucille
Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin), 1862-1943
Green, Michael, 1927-
Van Greenaway, Peter, 1929-
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967
Guthrie, Thomas Anstey, 1856-1934
Hamilton, Charles, 1875-1961
Hanley, James, 1897-1985
Hassel, Sven, 1917-2012
Herbert, A. P. (Alan Patrick), 1890-1971
Heyer, Georgette, 1902-1974
Hibbert, Eleanor, 1906-1993
Hodgetts, Sheila, 1924-
Hope, Polly
Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976
Joyce, Graham, 1954-2014
Klane, Robert, 1941-2023
Kneale, Nigel
Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott, 1888-1957
Lambert, Gavin
Langelaan, George, 1908-1969
Langley, Noel, 1911-1980
Laski, Marghanita, 1915-1988
McDowell, Michael, 1950-1999
Glashan, John, 1927-1999
Maclaren-Ross, J. (Julian), 1912-1964
Marsh, Richard, 1857-1915
Mee, Arthur, 1875-1943
Meyrink, Gustav, 1868-1932
Millar, Margaret, 1915-1994
Mills, Clifford
Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983
Moore, Brian, 1921-1999
Morton, J. B. (John Bingham), 1893-1979
Nichols, Peter, 1927-2019
Naughton, Bill
Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947
Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866
Porter, Joyce
Pownall, David, 1938-
Pullar, Philippa, 1935-
Pym, Barbara
Lobsang Rampa, T. (Tuesday), 1910-1981
Raven, Simon, 1927-2001
Richardson, Maurice
Ridley, Arnold, 1896-1984
Robbins, Tom, 1932-
Seton, Cynthia Propper
Shah, Idries, 1924-1996
Shaver, Richard S.
Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947
Tinniswood, Peter
Tryon, Thomas
Upfield, Arthur W. (Arthur William), 1888-1964
Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932
Ware, J. Redding (James Redding)
Waterhouse, Keith
Watson, Winifred, 1906-2002
Wheatley, Dennis, 1897-1977
White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964
Winsor, Kathleen
Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968
Kelley, William Melvin, 1937-2017
Authors--Biography (LCSH)
Literature, Modern--History and criticism (LCSH)
Classification
LCC: PN452 .F69 2018 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 809 full (Source: 23)
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index (index)
Content
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Summary
Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites: including the now-vanished novels Walt Disney brought to the screen, the contemporary rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie who did not stand the test of time, and the women who introduced us to psychological suspense many decades before it conquered the world. This is a book about books and their authors. It is for book lovers, and is written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and entertaining guide.
Table Of Contents
Why are good authors forgotten?
1. Margery Allingham
2. Virginia Andrews
3. Charlotte Armstrong
4. Frank Baker
5. R.M. Ballantyne
6. Alexander Baron
7. Peter Barnes
8. Lesley Blanch
9. Kyril Bonfiglioli
The forgotten Disney connection
10. Ernest Bornemann
11. Pierre Boulle
12. Mary Elizabeth Braddon
13. Caryl Brahms
14. Pamela Branch
15. Brigid Brophy
16. Thomas Burke
17. Dino Buzzati
18. Patricia Carlon
19. Barbara Comyns Carr
The Forgotten (pre-Tarantino) pulp fiction
20. John Dickson Carr
21. Leslie Charteris
22. John Christopher
23. John Collier
24. Norman Collins
25. Richard Condon
26. Edmund Crispin
27. E.M. Delafield
28. Patrick Dennis
29. Raymond Durgnat
The forgotten rivals of Holmes, Bond and Miss Marple
30. Rosalind Erskine
21. Dr. Christopher Evans
32. Jack Finney
33. Ronald Firbank
34. Peter Fleming
35. Lucille Fletcher
36. R. Austin Freeman
37. Michael Green
38. Peter Van Greenaway
The forgotten books of Charles Dickens
39. Robert Van Gulik
40. Thomas Guthrie
41. Charles Hamilton
42. James Hanley
43. Sven Hassel
44. A.P. Herbert
45. Georgette Heyer
46. Eleanor Hibbert
47. Harry Hodge
48. Sheila Hodgetts
The forgotten queens of suspense
49. Polly Hope
50. Richard Hughes
51. Graham Joyce
52. Robert Klane
53. Thomas Nigel Kneale
54. Ronald Knox
55. Gavin Lambert
56. George Langelaan
The forgotten nonsense writers
57. Noel Langley
58. Marghanita Laski
59. Michael McDowell
60. John McGlashan
61. Julian Maclaren-Ross
62. Richard Marsh
63. Arthur Mee
64. Gustav Meyer
65. Margaret Millar
The forgotten Booker authors
66. Clifford Mills
67. Gladys Mitchell
68. Brian Moore
69. J.B. Morton
70. Peter Nichols
71. Bill Naughton
72. Emma Orczy
73. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
74. Thomas Love Peacock
Forgotten for writing too little
and too much
75. Joyce Porter
76. David Pownall
77. Philippa Pullar
78. Barbara Pym
79. Richard Quittenton
80. T. Lobsang Rampa
81. Simon Raven
82. Maurice Richardson
The rediscovered forgotten authors
83. Arnold Ridley
84. Tom Robbins
85. Cynthia Propper Seton
86. Idries Shah
87. Richard Shaver
88. Matthew Phipps Shiel
89. Peter Tinniswood
Lost in translation: the forgotten world authors
90. Thomas Tryon
91. Arthur Upfield
92. Edgar Wallace
93. James Redding Ware
94. Keith Waterhouse
95. Winifred Watson
The justly forgotten authors
96. Dennis Wheatley
97. T.H. White
98. Kathleen Winsor
99. Cornell Woolrich
The last word
Acknowledgements
Index
Where were all the BAME writers?
100. William Melvin Kelley
Authorized Access Point
Fowler, Christopher The book of forgotten authors