biography
| name: |
Clavell, James (du Maresq)
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pronunciation:
[klavel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1924–94)
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| biography:
| Novelist, cinema scenarist, director, and producer, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He has worked mainly in the USA. Though his screen credits include The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), and To Sir With Love (1967), he is known primarily as the author of a series of best-selling novels with an Oriental setting. King Rat was published in 1962, and was followed by Tai-Pan (1966), Shogun (1975), Noble House (1981), and Gai-Jin (1993). |
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