biography
pronunciation:
[muhklayn]
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| lived:
| (1922–87)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow University, served in the Royal Navy (1941–46) and, while a schoolteacher, won a short-story competition held by the Glasgow Herald. At the suggestion of William Collins, the publishers, he produced a full-length novel, HMS Ulysses (1955), and this epic story of wartime bravery became an immediate best seller. He followed it with The Guns of Navarone in 1957, and turned to full-time writing. One of the most successful and prolific writers of adventure stories, many of his books were made into films, including Ice Station Zebra (1963), Where Eagles Dare (1967), and Puppet on a Chain (1969). |
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