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Pierre Coalfleet
1893–1960
A Canadian-born novelist writing under the name Pierre Coalfleet, he built a brief but distinctive literary career in the 1920s, publishing four novels in just a few years. His work is now remembered for its period charm and for the unusual path that led him from Canada into wider literary and theatrical circles.
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Hare and Tortoise
by Pierre Coalfleet
About the author
Born Frank Cyril Shaw Davison on February 3, 1893, he was a Canadian-born writer who published fiction under the pseudonym Pierre Coalfleet. Between 1921 and 1927, he brought out four novels, making his mark in a concentrated burst of creative work.
Davison is best known today through that pen name, which appears on novels such as Hare and Tortoise and Meanwhile. In addition to his fiction, he also worked on adaptations and translations of European plays, showing an interest in literature beyond the novel.
He died on March 31, 1960. Though not widely known now, Pierre Coalfleet remains an intriguing figure for readers interested in overlooked early-20th-century writers and the literary byways of the 1920s.