Straus, Ralph
STRAUS, RALPH
STRAUS, RALPH (1882–1950), English novelist and biographer. Born in Manchester and educated at Harrow and Cambridge, Straus is best known as the author of Dickens, a Portrait in Pencil (1928) and Dickens, the Man and Book (1936). He also wrote a mystical fantasy, The Dust Which Is God (1907); The Unseemly Adventures (1924); Married Alive (1925); and Five Men Go to Prison (1935).
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BORN: 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England
DIED: 1898, Guildford, Surrey, England
NATIONALITY: English
GENRE: Fiction, poetry, nonfictio… Lewis Carroll , Carroll, Lewis
BORN: 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England
DIED: 1898, Guildford, Surrey, England
NATIONALITY: English
GENRE: Fiction, poetry, nonfictio…
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