Ernest Bramah
English author (1868-1942) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 74
Ernest Brammah Smith, who wrote under the pseudonym of Ernest Bramah, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features.
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His humorous works were often ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.
