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| Born | Ernest Bramah Smith 20 March 1868 near Manchester, England |
| Died | 27 June 1942 (aged 74) Hammersmith, London, England |
Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868[1] – 27 June 1942), the pseudonym of Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author.[2] He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were often ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.[3]
- ^ Entry of Birth in 2nd Quarter 1868 Register, Hulme, Chorlton, Lancashire, volume 8C, p. 739.
- ^ The most recent biographical source is: Aubrey Wilson, The Search for Ernest Bramah (Creighton and Read 2007).
- ^ White, William (1964)."Ernest Bramah" and "Checklist." The Book Collector 13 no 1(spring):54-63.