1. Edgar Jepson largely wrote mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but supernatural and fantasy stories.
11 Facts About Edgar Jepson
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Edgar Jepson was born on 28 November 1863 in Bloomsbury, London, but grew up in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, the second of five sons and three daughters raised by Alfred and Margaret Jepson.
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Edgar Jepson attended Leamington College for Boys and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford.
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Edgar Jepson was a translator, notably of the Arsene Lupin stories of Maurice Leblanc.
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Edgar Jepson was a member of the Square Club of established Edwardian authors, and one of the more senior members of the New Bohemians drinking club.
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Edgar Jepson was a good friend of the author Ford Madox Ford.
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Edgar Jepson edited Vanity Fair magazine for a short period, during which he employed Richard Barham Middleton.
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Edgar Jepson did much to preserve Middleton's memory after his death.
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Edgar Jepson's son Selwyn Jepson was a crime writer, while his daughter, Margaret, published novels as Margaret Jepson, including Via Panama.
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Edgar Jepson died on 12 April 1938 at his home in Hampstead.
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Edgar Jepson was survived by his son and both daughters and by his former wife Frita Bisham Holmes, daughter of the violinist and composer Henry Holmes.