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name: Stephen   Knight
about: Stephen Knight was born in Hainault, Essex in 1951. He left school at sixteen to pursue a career as a journalist. He was a reporter on several weekly London papers and by age 20 had become chief reporter of one of them. In 1973, Knight met a man who claimed to know the truth behind the Jack the Ripper murders. Knight investigated the case, obtaining access to previously closed files of the Home Office and Scotland Yard. This led to his first book, the bestselling nonfiction work Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. His first and only novel, Requiem at Rogano, appeared in 1979 to generally positive reviews, and a further nonfiction work, The Brotherhood, purporting to expose the secrets of the Freemasons, appeared in 1984.In 1977, Knight beg Stephen Knight was born in Hainault, Essex in 1951. He left school at sixteen to pursue a career as a journalist. He was a reporter on several weekly London papers and by age 20 had become chief reporter of one of them. In 1973, Knight met a man who claimed to know the truth behind the Jack the Ripper murders. Knight investigated the case, obtaining access to previously closed files of the Home Office and Scotland Yard. This led to his first book, the bestselling nonfiction work Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. His first and only novel, Requiem at Rogano, appeared in 1979 to generally positive reviews, and a further nonfiction work, The Brotherhood, purporting to expose the secrets of the Freemasons, appeared in 1984.In 1977, Knight began to suffer from epileptic seizures, and in 1980 he agreed to take part in a BBC documentary on epilepsy after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper. As part of the television program, a brain scan was taken, which revealed a brain tumor. Though surgeons removed the tumor, it recurred four years later, and Knight died in 1985 at age 33. ...more