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English writer (1903–1979)

Rupert Croft-Cooke (20 June 1903 – 10 June 1979)^[1] was an English writer. He was a prolific creator of fiction and non-fiction, including screenplays and biographies under his own name and detective stories under the pseudonym of Leo Bruce.

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Life

Rupert Croft-Cooke was born on 20 June 1903, in Edenbridge, Kent,^[2] the son of Hubert Bruce Cooke, who worked in the London Stock Exchange, and his wife Lucy, a daughter of Dr. Alfred Taylor,^[3] and was educated at Tonbridge School and Wellington College. At the age of seventeen, he was working as a private tutor in Paris.

He spent 1923 and 1924 in Buenos Aires, where he founded the journal La Estrella. In 1925 he returned to London and began a career as a freelance journalist and writer, at about this time combining his middle name into his surname. His work appeared in several magazines, including New Writing, Adelphi, and the English Review.

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