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E. B. Temple
Known for romantic, imaginative fiction and a lively career in both novels and the theater, this early 20th-century British writer reached a wide audience with books like The City of Beautiful Nonsense and The Flower of Gloster.
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About the author
E. B. Temple appears to refer to E. Temple Thurston, the pen name of Ernest Charles Temple Thurston (1879–1933), a British poet, playwright, and author. He published from a young age and went on to build a varied literary career that moved between verse, fiction, and the stage.
He is especially remembered for popular books such as The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1909) and The Flower of Gloster (1911). His work often blended charm, sentiment, and a gift for storytelling that made him widely read in his day, and several of his books and plays were adapted for film or performed in the theater.
Thurston was a notably prolific writer, and many of his works remain accessible through public-domain collections today. Even when his name is less familiar to modern readers, his best-known books still offer a window into the mood, humor, and literary taste of the Edwardian and early interwar years.