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Alex Dictionary is a structured, fact-checked and controlled dictionary of fiction authors from all over the world. Alex offers a range of excellent search options so that you can find the right one in our broad database which changes daily with additions such as e.g. new titles, adaptations and references. All texts are written by professionals, edited by professionals and reviewed by professionals, nothing is AI generated. We have subscriptions for institutions, companies and private individuals. Get started today!
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Tey, Josephine
Josephine Tey (the author of popular mystery novels) and Gordon Daviot (a well-known English playwright between 1933 and 1952) were one and the same: the pseudonyms of the reserved, at times even diffident, Scottish author Elizabeth Mackintosh. Little is known about her life; not even the year of her birth can be determined exactly. It was previously believed that she was born in 1897, but it...