LC control no. | n 50044545 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR4149.B957 |
Personal name heading | Boothby, Guy, 1867-1905 |
Variant(s) | Būthbī, Gaʼī, 1867-1905 Boothby, Guy Newell, 1867-1905 |
Associated country | Australia England |
Birth date | 1867-10-13 |
Death date | 1905-02-26 |
Place of birth | Adelaide (S.A.) |
Place of death | Bournemouth (England) |
Found in | LC database, Apr. 2, 2012 (hdg.: Boothby, Guy Newell, 1867-1905; usage: Guy Boothby, Gaʼī Būthbī) Wikipedia 07-28-2015: (Guy Boothby; b. Oct 13, 1867, Adelaide, Australia; moved to London in 1894; died: Feb 26, 1905, Bournemouth, United Kingdom; a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century.; he lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian; Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell) |