Claude Askew

Born in 1865, Claude Arthur Cary Askew was an English writer who became best known for his long creative partnership with his wife, Alice Askew. Together they produced more than ninety novels, as well as plays and travel writing, and were widely read in the early 20th century.

The couple worked at impressive speed and across several genres, from popular fiction to historical and sensational stories. During World War I, they also traveled in Serbia and wrote about what they witnessed there, including in The Stricken Land and As We Saw It in Serbia.

In 1917, Claude and Alice Askew were killed together when the ship SS Città di Bari was torpedoed while they were returning from France. Their story is often remembered not only for the scale of their literary output, but also for the unusual closeness of their collaboration.