E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

Born in Halesworth, Suffolk, on 23 September 1879, Ernest Charles Temple Thurston wrote under the name E. Temple Thurston. He began very young, publishing verse in his teens before turning to fiction, drama, and essays.

His career ranged across several forms, but he is best remembered as a novelist and playwright whose books reached a broad audience in the early 1900s. Among his best-known titles are Sally Bishop and The City of Beautiful Nonsense, and some of his work was adapted for film and the stage.

Thurston died in London on 19 March 1933. Though not as widely read now as he was in his own time, he remains an interesting figure from the Edwardian and interwar literary world, with a body of work that shows both popularity and versatility.