1878 - 1957
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany British Writer
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British Writer Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany was born Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett on 24th July, 1878 in London, England, UK and passed away on 25th Oct 1957 Dublin, Ireland aged 79. He is most remembered for Best known today for his fantasy novel "The King of Elfland's Daughter" (1924). His zodiac sign is Leo.
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany is a member of the following lists: Irish memoirists, People from Shoreham, Kent and Irish novelists.
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First Name |
Edward
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Middle Name |
Plunkett, 18th Baron Of
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Last Name |
Dunsany
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Full Name at Birth |
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
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Alternative Name |
Edward JMD Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (pen name)
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Birthday |
24th July, 1878
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Birthplace |
London, England, UK
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Died |
25th October, 1957
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Place of Death |
Dublin, Ireland
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Cause of Death |
Appendicitis (after an appendicitis attack)
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Height |
6' 4" (193 cm)
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Zodiac Sign |
Leo
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Ethnicity |
White
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Nationality |
British
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Occupation Text |
Short story writer, playwright, chess player, novelist, poet, sportsman
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Occupation |
Writer
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Claim to Fame |
Best known today for his fantasy novel "The King of Elfland's Daughter" (1924)
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Music Genre (Text) |
High fantasy, Science Fiction, Crime Fiction, Horror, Weird Fiction, Crime, Weird
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Official Websites |
http://www.dunsany.net/18th.htm, www.dunsany.net/18th.htm
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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime, and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's œuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Gods of Pegāna, wherein he devised his own fictional pantheon and laid the groundwork for the fantasy genre. He was the inventor of an asymmetric version of chess called Dunsany's chess.
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