Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

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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
Middle Name	Plunkett, 18th Baron Of
Last Name	Dunsany
Full Name at Birth	Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
Alternative Name	Edward JMD Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (pen name)
Birthday	24th July, 1878
Birthplace	London, England, UK
Died	25th October, 1957
Place of Death	Dublin, Ireland
Cause of Death	Appendicitis (after an appendicitis attack)
Height	6' 4" (193 cm)
Zodiac Sign	Leo
Ethnicity	White
Nationality	British
Occupation Text	Short story writer, playwright, chess player, novelist, poet, sportsman
Occupation	Writer
Claim to Fame	Best known today for his fantasy novel "The King of Elfland's Daughter" (1924)
Music Genre (Text)	High fantasy, Science Fiction, Crime Fiction, Horror, Weird Fiction, Crime, Weird
Official Websites	http://www.dunsany.net/18th.htm, www.dunsany.net/18th.htm

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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