biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–83)
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| biography:
| Writer and soldier, born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. He grew up in India and was educated at Wellington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. During his army career he served in India, Myanmar (Burma), and the Middle East. After Indian independence he moved to the USA and began to write the first of a series of novels about the Savage family in India. Nightrunners of Bengal (1951) and Bhowani Junction (1953) became immediate best-sellers. He also wrote a trilogy about World War 1, Loss of Eden: Now God Be Thanked (1979), and a biography of Casanova (1969). |
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