Edith Templeton (1916–2006)

Edith Templeton was born in Prague in 1916 & spent much of her childhood in a castle in the Bohemian countryside. In 1938, she left Prague to marry an Englishman & Began living in Britain. During the war, she worked in the Office of the Chief Surgeon for the U.S. Army in Cheltenham & then became a show more Captain in the British Army. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the fifties & over the next several decades she published a number of novels, as well as a popular travel book. Under a pseudonym, she also wrote a novel which was banned for indecency in Germany & England. With her second husband, a celebrated cardiologist, she left England to live in India, where she met Nehru & the Dalai Lama, among other major figures. She now lives in Bordighera, on the coast of Italy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less