Author: Robert Barr
Alternate names: <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3774884A>Luke Sharp</a>; Robert 1850-1912 Barr; Luke Sharp; Robert Barr (Luke Sharp)
Born: 16 September 1849
Died: 21 October 1912
Bio: A Canadian/British writer of novels and short stories (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barr_(writer)>Wikipedia</a>). Born in Scotland, he went with his parents to Canada when he was four, taught and did some writing in Canada until he emigrated to England in 1881 where he did most of his writing and was associated with, inter alia, <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL215610A>Jerome K. Jerome</a> and Sir <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2623297A>Arthur Conan Doyle</a>.