Bagley, Desmond, 1923-1983
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Name (Hebrew)
באגלי, דסמונד, 1923-1983
Name (Latin)
Bagley, Desmond, 1923-1983
Other forms of name
Bagley, Desmond, 1923-
בגלי, דזמונד, 1923-1983
בגלי, דסמונד
Date of birth
1923
Date of death
1983
Place of birth
Kendal (England)
Associated country
England
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Juggernaut, 1987:CIP t.p. (Desmond Bagley) pub. info. (d. 1983)
- The golden keel, 1963.
- Wikipedia, viewed 17 June 2026:Desmond Bagley (journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers; born 29 October 1923 in Kendal, Westmorland, and moved with his family to Blackpool in 1935; left school not long after, working as a printer's assistant and factory worker; left England for Africa in 1947, briefly settling in Kampala, Uganda, and settling in South Africa by 1951, working in the gold mining and asbestos industries in Durban before becoming a freelance writer for local newspapers and magazines; returned to England in 1964, living in Bishopsteignton, Devon, then Totnes, Devon, from 1966 to 1976, then Guernsey; died of complications of a stroke 12 April 1983 in Southampton, England)
- His The golden keel, 1963.
- His Juggernaut, 1987:CIP t.p. (Desmond Bagley) pub. info. (d. 1983)
- Desmond Bagley: (Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 - 12 April 1983) was a British journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers. ... Bagley was born at Kendal, Cumbria (then Westmorland), England ... He left England in 1947 for Africa ... By 1951, he had settled in South Africa ... Bagley and his wife left South Africa for England in 1964 where they lived in Bishopsteignton, Devon ... . They settled in Totnes, Devon, from 1966-1976, then lived in Guernsey in the Channel Islands from 1976-1983. ( (Wikipedia, accessed 06/11/2016) )
Wikipedia description:
Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 – 12 April 1983) was an English journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers. He and fellow British writers such as Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean set conventions for the genre: a tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary hero pitted against villains determined to sow destruction and chaos for their own ends.
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