Happy birthday today to E. Phillips Oppenheim, “often called the father of the thriller and ‘the Prince of Storytellers,’” as Elizabeth Foxwell observed on this date last year. Adds Wikipedia: “He composed some one hundred and fifty novels, mainly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. He was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, and invented the ‘Rogue Male’ school of adventure thrillers that was later exploited by John Buchan and Geoffrey Household.” Oppenheim would have been 142 today, had he not perished in 1946.
Many of Oppenheim’s stories available free of charge on the Web.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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