James Morgan Walsh

James Morgan Walsh was an Australian novelist who was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1897 and educated at Xavier College.
He published his first novel in 1921, and encouraged by its success, became a full-time writer in 1923.
He married Louisa Mary Murphy on 1 January 1925, and later that year the couple settled in the United Kingdom. Walsh was to remain there until his death in 1952 in Western-Super-Mare, Somerset, England.
Walsh was a very prolific writer, producing around 94 novels, across a range of genres under a number of pseudonyms.
In addition to his novels Walsh also wrote a number of short stories, and books for children.
From 1938 Walsh lived at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where he died on 29 August 1952.

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