E. Temple Thurston

Self-portrait of E. Temple Thurston

Ernest Temple Thurston (September 23, 1879 – March 19, 1933) was an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author.

Biography

Thurston was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. At age ten, his family moved to Cork. In 1901 he married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden, (1875-1911). The marriage did not last, however. They were separated in 1907, and formally divorced in 1910.

Thurston wrote a total of forty books, from which seventeen motion pictures were made. In addition, he authored several theatrical plays, three of which were performed on Broadway and four of which were made into motion pictures. His best known work for the stage is The Wandering Jew, a play in four parts which was performed on Broadway in 1921. The play was made into a film of the same name in 1923, and reproduced in 1933. His third wife, Emily, published the play as a novel in 1934.

His most successful books include The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1909) and The Flower of Gloster (1911), a story about a canal journey in England. Two film versions of The City of Beautiful Nonsense were made: a silent version in 1919, and a sound version in 1935.

He died from influenza and pneumonia in London in 1933.

In 1967, Granada TV broadcast a 13-part children's serial called The Flower of Gloster, an updated version of Thurston's original. The serial was followed a few years later by a book of the same name, authored by the serial's producer Bill Grundy.[1]

Bibliography

Broadway plays:

References

  1. ↑ The Flower of Gloster. Grundy, Bill, Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, London, 1970.

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