birth_date: 1857-05-14 00:00:00
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name: Edwin Lester Arnold
about: Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, (1857 – 1 March 1935) was an English author. Most of his works were issued under his working name of Edwin Lester Arnold.Son of Sir Edwin Arnold. Most of his childhood was spent in India, but he returned to England to study agriculture and ornithology. He became a journalist in 1883, and published his first books 1877 and 1887 before writing his first novel The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician. Phra was first published in 24 parts in the prestigious Illustrated London News, and later published in book form in the United States and the United Kingdom.
death_date: 1935-03-01 00:00:00