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- Birth nameWilliam Edward Vickers
- Roy Vickers was born in 1889 in England, UK. He was a writer, known for Le service des affaires classées (1970), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and The Girl in the News (1940). He was married to Mary van Rossem. He died in 1965.
- SpouseMary van Rossem (1 child)
- A 1921 vintage print photograph of Vickers is held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.
- Janet Wright, an English freelance journalist, wrote to an English history and genealogy message board in 2002 that she is the granddaughter of Lyle Vickers, who was the brother of Roy Vickers. She believes that "they seem to have been part of a very squabbling family" and that Lyle and Roy "were disinherited: Granpa for being a gambler and Roy for marrying a Boer.".
- Vickers and his wife Mary had one son.
- A collection of 15 books by Vickers was priced at Christie's Auction House as worth between $400 and $500 in 2012.
- His work was translated into various languages, and some of his stories were adapted for film and television.
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