Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore on May 12th, 1907. With his
mother and brother, he moved to England in 1919 and attended
Rossall School in Lancashire before moving on to Cambridge
University to study law. His studies there came to a halt when a
publisher accepted his first novel. His third book, entitled Meet
the Tiger!, was written when he was twenty years old and published
in September 1928. It introduced the world to Simon Templar, aka
the Saint.
He continued to write about the Saint until 1983 when the last
book, Salvage for the Saint, was published. The books, which have
been translated into over thirty languages, number nearly a hundred
and have sold over 40 million copies around the world. They've
inspired, to date, fifteen feature films, three TV series, ten
radio series, and a comic strip that was written by Charteris and
syndicated around the world for over a decade. He enjoyed
travelling but settled for long periods in Hollywood, Florida, and
finally in Surrey, England. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond
Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association in 1992, in recognition of
a lifetime of achievement. He died the following year.
To find out more about Leslie Charteris and his work, visit
www.lesliecharteris.com.
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