Edith Templeton

Edith Templeton

Edith Templeton (1916, Prague – 2006) was a novelist, who also wrote under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook.

She was educated at the French lycée in Prague and left the city in 1938 to marry an Englishman. Her first short stories appeared in "The New Yorker" in the 1950s. She published a number of novels as well as a travel book, "The Surprise of Cremona". Edith Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India. Her novel "Gordon" first appeared in 1966 under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook; it was banned in England and Germany. She lived in Bordighera, Italy for many years, and died in June 2006.

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* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/edith-templeton/]
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