O'Donnell, Peter, 1920-2010
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Name (Hebrew)
אודונל, פיטר, 1920-2010
Name (Latin)
O'Donnell, Peter, 1920-2010
Date of birth
1920
Date of death
2010
Occupation
Cartoonists
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
מחבר ספרי מודסטי בליז.
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Sources of Information
- His Modesty Blaise, 1965.
- Fantastic fiction www site, 20 Sept. 2007:Madeleine Brent page (Peter O'Donnell is the real name of Madeleine Brent)
- Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Mar. 12, 2008(Peter O'Donnell; b. Apr. 11, 1920, London, England; creator and author of "Modesty Blaise" cartoon strip, 1963-; written novels under pseudonym Madeleine Brent)
- Times online WWW site, May 5, 2010(Peter O'Donnell; b. Apr. 11, 1920, Lewisham, South London; d. May 3, 2010; writer of many adventure novels who was always best known for creating the comic-strip heroine Modesty Blaise; under the nom de plume Madeleine Brent, wrote a series of Gothic romance and adventure novels, set in the Victorian era)
Wikipedia description:
Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also a gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent; in 1978, his novel Merlin's Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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