Author
1925–2008
Also known as George Macdonald Fraser, Fraser George Macdonald, George MacDonald FRASER, George Macdonald-Fraser, G.Macdonald Fraser, Джордж Макдоналд Фрейзер
George MacDonald Fraser(2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one short-story collection in the Flashman series of novels, as well as non-fiction, short stories, novels and screenplays—including those for the James Bond film Octopussy and an adaptation of his own novel Royal Flash.
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Recorded as 1979; date may be inaccurate
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Recorded as 1992; date may be inaccurate
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Recorded as 1987; date may be inaccurate
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Recorded as 1973; date may be inaccurate
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Recorded as 1998; date may be inaccurate
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In 1934, Robert Graves did what very few writers do and invented a new genre: the fictional autobiography. I, Claudius took the facts of Roman history and worked them up, along with some colourful invention, into a first-person novel presented, and which coul…
At this time there was a great unrest throughout Britain, in the industrial areas, which meant very little to me, and indeed I’ve never troubled to read up the particulars of it. The working people were in a state of agitation, and one heard of riots in the m…
