biography
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Charteris, Leslie
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originally Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin
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pronunciation:
[chah(r)teris]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–93)
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| biography:
| Crime-story writer, born in Singapore. He studied at Cambridge, then worked in a wide variety of jobs, changed his name in 1928, and settled in the USA (1932), working as a Hollywood screenwriter. He became a US citizen in 1941. He is especially known as the creator of Simon Templar, ‘the Saint’. |
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