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BIOGRAPHY
cHe later worked for six years in the aircraft industry. He left England in 1947 and began a journey to South Africa. Along the way he worked at various jobs. Once in South Africa he began working as a freelance journalist.
Bagley's first novel, THE GOLDEN KEEL, was published when he was forty. It won him immediate recognition and financial success. His last book, JUGGERNAUT, was complete by his wife and published posthumously.
Desmond Bagley died in Southampton in 1983.
CHRONOLOGY
1923 He was born in Kendal, Westmoreland in England.
1937 He left school and began working aas a printer's devil.
1940 He began working in the aircraft industry.
1947 He began his journey to South Africa.
1951 He worked for the Broadcasting Company in Durham.
1958 He began writing film critiques for RANDY DAILY MAIL in Johannesburg.
1960 He married Joan Margaret Brown.
1961 He worked as a writer for Filmlets Ltd.
1963 THE GOLDEN KEEL
1965 HIGH CITADEL
1966 WYATT'S HURRICANE
1967 LANDSLIDE; He and his wife moved to Guernsey.
1968 THE VIVERO LERRER
1969 THE SPOILERS
1970 RUNNING BLIND
1971 THE FREEDOM TRAP/ THE MACINTOSH MAN
1973 THE TIGHTROPE MEN
1975 THE SNOW TIGER
1977 THE ENEMY
1978 FLYAWAY
1980 BAHAMA CRISIS
1982 WINDFALL
1983 NIGHT OF ERROR; He died in Southampton. (April 12)
1984 JUGGERNAUT
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