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She looks like a million dollars, but she only knows a hundred and twenty words and she’s only got two ideas in her head. The other one’s hats.
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Birth: | 8th March, 1899 |
Death: | 7th November, 1974 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
Eric Robert Russell Linklater was born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. He was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book. He also wrote two children’s novels, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea and Karina With Love. Although his greatest success came in the early years of that career, he was to publish 23 novels, three volumes of stories, two books of verse, ten plays, three works of autobiography, and another 23 books of essays and histories.
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