Frank Richards

Frank Richards Writer - Born August 8, 1876 in Ealing, Middlesex, England, UK

Died December 24, 1961 in Kingsgate, Kent, England, UK (cerebral hemorrhage)

Birth Name Charles Harold St John Hamilton

Trivia (1) Frank Richards was just one pseudonym of Charles Harold St John Hamilton. The most prolific boys' fiction author of all time according to the Guinness Book of Records. Pen-names listed in 'The Men Behind Boys' Fiction' by Bill Lofts and Derek Adley include Harry Clifton, Martin Clifford, Clifford Clive, Sir Alan Cobham, Owen Conquest, Gordon Conway, Harry Dorian, Frank Drake, Freeman Fox, Hamilton Greening, Cecil Herbert, Prosper Howard, Robert Jennings, Gillingham Jones, T Harcourt Lewelyn, Clifford Owen, Ralph Redway, Ridley Redway, Frank Richards, Hilda Richards, Raleigh Robbins, Robert Rogers, Eric Stanhope, Robert Stanley, Nigel Wallace and Talbot Wynyard.