Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
| The Right Honourable The Lord Dunsany |
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Edward JMD Plunkett
Lord Dunsany (18th Baron) |
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| Born |
24 July 1878 London, England |
| Died | 25 October 1957 (aged 79) Dublin, Ireland |
| Pen name | Lord Dunsany |
| Occupation | Writer (short story writer, playwright, novelist, poet) |
| Nationality | Irish, British |
| Genre | Crime, High fantasy, Horror, Science fiction, Weird |
| Notable works | Early short story collections, The King of Elfland's Daughter |
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (/dʌnˈseɪni/; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. He is best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world.
Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.
Edward Plunkett (Dunsany) was the first son of John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (1853–1899) and his wife, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, née Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton (1855–1916).
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