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It is 129 years today since Anthony Berkeley Cox was born.
The British author Anthony Berkely Cox was born in Watford to a wealthy family. His father was a physician. After attending university and serving in the First World War, Cox worked as a theatre producer, he wrote for weekly magazines and he was joint owner of an advertising agency. He also did some literary criticism, but his chief occupation was to manage the family fortune and write novels.
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