M. M. Kaye (1908–2004)
Author of The Far Pavilions
About the Author
M. M. Kaye was born on August 21, 1908 in Simla, India to British parents. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Death Walks in Kashmir, Later than You Think, Shadow of the Moon, Trade Wind, The Far Pavilions, The Sun in the Morning, Golden Afternoon, and Enchanted Evening. She show more also wrote and illustrated children's books including The Ordinary Princess. She died on January 29, 2004 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by M. M. Kaye
House of Shade Omnibus: Death in Zanzibar, Death in Andamans, and, Death in Kashmir (1959) 15 copies
[Unknown works] 2 copies
Insel im Sturm 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Kaye, Mary Margaret
- Other names
- Kaye, Mollie
- Birthdate
- 1908-08-21
- Date of death
- 2004-01-29
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Simla, India
- Place of death
- Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK
- Places of residence
- India
Kenya
Zanzibar
Egypt
Cyprus
Germany (show all 7)
Pevensey, Sussex, England, UK - Occupations
- historical novelist
mystery writer
illustrator
autobiographer - Relationships
- Kaye, Sir John William (grandfather's cousin)
- Awards and honors
- Colonel James Tod International Award, Maharana Mewar Foundation (2003)
- Short biography
- Mary Margaret ("Mollie") Kaye was born in India into a family of military officers and statesmen that had served the British government for many generations. Sir John William Kaye, one of her grandfather's cousins, was Political Secretary of the India Office and the author of the classic histories of the Indian Mutiny and the First Afghan War. Another cousin, Edward Kaye, commanded a battery at the 1857 Siege of Delhi and was later made a Lieutenant General. Mollie Kaye was born in Simla, the summer capital of the Raj, and spent the cool months of the year living in Delhi. In her obituary, the Guardian said, "[S]he was raised by servants, speaking Hindustani before English, while playing around gun emplacements and dodging her ayah to listen to storytellers in the Delhi bazaar. Like Kipling's Kim, she thought herself Indian, 'just a member of a different caste in a land of castes'. " After education at boarding school in England, Mollie returned to India. In 1945, she married Major-General Goff Hamilton of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides; the couple had two daughters. Her husband's military postings took Mollie all over the world, and she juggled her duties as a mother and an officer's wife with her writing under the pen name M.M. Kaye. Her 3-volume autobiography is called Share of Summer and comprises The Sun In The Morning (1990), Golden Afternoon (1997), and Enchanted Evening (1999).
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- Works
- 30
- Also by
- 7
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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