| LC control no. | n 79041794 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6005.R673 |
| Personal name heading | Croft-Cooke, Rupert, 1903-1979 |
| Variant(s) | Cooke, Rupert Croft-, 1903-1979 |
| See also | Bruce, Leo, 1903-1979 |
| Associated country | England |
| Birth date | 1903-06-20 |
| Death date | 1979-06-10 |
| Place of birth | Edenbridge (England) |
| Place of death | Bournemouth (England) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Motion picture plays Biography Freelance journalism Radio broadcasting Booksellers and bookselling |
| Affiliation | Tonbridge School Wellington College (Crowthorne, England) Institut Montana Zugerberg |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Journalists Radio broadcasters Antiquarian booksellers Teachers |
| Found in | His Troubadour, 1946. His Neck and neck, 1980: t.p. (Leo Bruce) CIP data sheet (d. 1980) His Furious old women, 1982, c1960: CIP t.p. (Leo Bruce) data sheet (1903-1979) His Case without a corpse, 1982: CIP t.p. (Leo Bruce) data sheet (pen name of Rupert Croft-Cooke) Internet movie database, Nov. 9, 2009 (Rupert Croft-Cooke; b. June 20, 1903; d. June 10, 1979) Wikipedia, viewed Nov. 18, 2022: Rupert Croft-Cooke (Rupert Croft-Cooke (20 June 1903 - 10 June 1979) was an English writer. A prolific creator of fiction and non-fiction, including screenplays and biographies under his own name and detective stories under the pseudonym of Leo Bruce. The son of Hubert Bruce Cooke, of the London Stock Exchange, and his wife Lucy, a daughter of Dr Alfred Taylor, Rupert Croft-Cooke was born on 20 June 1903, in Edenbridge, Kent, and was educated at Tonbridge School and Wellington College (Shropshire). At the age of seventeen, he was working as a private tutor in Paris. He spent 1923 and 1924 in Buenos Aires, where he founded the journal La Estrella. In 1925 he returned to London and began a career as a freelance journalist and writer, at about this time combining his middle name into his surname. His work appeared in several magazines, including New Writing, Adelphi, and the English Review. In the late 1920s the American magazine Poetry published several of his plays. He was also a radio broadcaster on psychology. In 1929 he became a dealer in antiquarian books, continuing this business until 1931. From 1930 he spent a year in Germany, and in 1931 lectured in English at the Institut Montana Zugerberg in Switzerland. In 1940 he joined the British Army and served in Africa and India until 1946. He later wrote several books about his military experiences. From 1947 to 1953 he was a book reviewer for The Sketch. Croft-Cooke returned to England in the 1970s and died in 1979, when he was living at 4, Amira Court, Bourne Avenue, Bournemouth.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Croft-Cooke> |
| Associated language | eng |
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