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- Birth nameWilliam Tufnell Le Queux
- William Le Queux was born on July 2, 1864 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Sadounah (1915), The Sons of Satan (1915) and The White Lie (1914). He died on October 13, 1927 in Switzerland.
- Educated in London, France, and Italy, he studied art in Paris, but gave up the idea of being an artist in order to continue traveling. In Russia, he gathered materials for his first book, Guilty Bonds (1891). He alternated careers as newspaperman and novelist in the 1890s and 1910s and, it is said, after World War I was involved in espionage work for the British government. He was one of the earliest authors of espionage fiction and wrote more than a hundred novels of spy fiction.
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