William Tufnell Le Queux | |
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 Portrait by E. O. Hoppé, 1922 | |
| Born | 2 July 1864 London, England |
| Died | 13 October 1927 (aged 63) Knokke, Belgium |
| Genre | Mystery, thriller, and espionage |
William Tufnell Le Queux (/ləˈkjuː/ lə-KEW,[1] French: [ləkø]; 2 July 1864 – 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.
- ^ Daniel Jones, Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary (London: J M Dent & Sons, 1967), p. 283.