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Bagley, Desmond

Country/Region:
United Kingdom
Born:
October 29, 1923
Dead:
April 12, 1983
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature
Portrait of Desmond Bagley Photo: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images (1978)
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a printers and servicing game machines.

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