Author: John Symonds
Born: 12 March 1914
Died: 21 October 2006
Bio: John Symonds was an English novelist, biographer, playwright and writer of children's books. Symonds met the infamous occultist and founder of the Thelemite religion, Aleister Crowley in 1946, the year before Crowley's death. Along with one of Crowley's disciples, Kenneth Grant, Symonds edited and republished Crowley's autobiography and a number of his other works.

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