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George Douglas Brown was born in Ochiltree, Ayrshire on 26 January 1869, the illegitimate son of a farmer of the same name, and Sarah Gemmell, a farm servant. Brown was academically gifted, and took a First in Classics at the University of Glasgow, then won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, though he was unhappy there. After the death of his mother in 1895, Brown settled in London, earning a living from tutoring and literary journalism. In 1899, under the pseudonym "Kennedy King", he published "Love And A Sword", a boy's adventure novel. The following year he began to write the novel for which he is famous, "The House With The Green Shutters". It was published in 1901, under the name "George Douglas", and is an undisputed classic of Scottish fiction. He was making notes for two other books, "The Incompatibles" and "The Novelist", when he died of pneumonia on 28 August 1902.AC
as Kennedy King: Love and a Sword (1899); as George Douglas,: The House with the Green Shutters (1901).
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