Charles Hamilton
Writer, Author
1876 – 1961
Who was Charles Hamilton?
Charles Harold St. John Hamilton was an English writer, specializing in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also dealt with other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories. Other important pen-names included Martin Clifford, Owen Conquest and Ralph Redway. He also wrote hundreds of stories under his real name such as the Ken King stories for The Modern Boy.
He is estimated to have written about 100 million words in his lifetime and has featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific author.
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- Born
- Aug 8, 1876
London Borough of Ealing - Also known as
- Martin Clifford
- Frank Richards
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 24, 1961
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on July 23, 2013
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