biography
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Ransome, Arthur (Michell)
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| lived:
| (1884–1967)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Rugby, worked for a publisher, and became a war correspondent in World War 1, covering the Russian Revolution. After a stormy relationship with his first wife, they divorced in 1924, and he married Trotsky's secretary, Evgenia Shelepin, with whom he fled from Russia. He wrote critical works and travel books before making his name with books for young readers, notably Swallows and Amazons (1930). |
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