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Ernest Bramah
English author
Ernest Bramah | |
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| Born | Ernest Bramah Smith ()20 March near Manchester, England |
| Died | 27 June () (aged74) Hammersmith, London, England |
Ernest Bramah (20 March 23 June ),[1] the pseudonym of Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author.[2] He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features.
Biography of Ernest Bramah
His humorous works were often ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.[3]
Early career
Ernest Brammah Smith (the spelling of his middle name on his birth certificate was recorded by the register as 'Brammah', not 'Bramah') was born in Manchester, England in , the son of Char