{"bio": "Born in Dublin, Ireland; Alister McAllister became chief clerk in the National University, 1908-14; also acted as librarian; began writing plays under pseud. Henry Alexander, issuing Irene Wycherly (1906; var. 1907); also At the Barn (1912), with Marie Tempest, as well as others less successful; joined the British Army in 1914; wounded twice in machine-gun corps; settled in England after the First World War; wrote novels as Anthony Wharton, viz., The Man on the Hill (1923), dealing with society under stress of war; also The Two of Diamonds (1926), and detective novels as pseud. Lynn Brock, viz., The Deductions of Col. Gore (1925), followed by His Second Case; Third Case; The Kink and The Mendip Mystery; another play, The O\u2019Cuddy (Abbey 1943), with Cyril Cusack, F. J. MacCormack, and Gerard Healy, closed after a week; lived for some time in Devon; died in Surrey, UK. - Source:http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mc/McAllister_A/life.htm", "name": "Alister McAllister", "key": "/authors/OL1165290A", "alternate_names": ["Lynn Brock", "Henry Alexander", "Antony P. Wharton.", "Anthony P. Wharton"], "personal_name": "Alister McAllister", "death_date": "6 April 1943", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "birth_date": "1877", "source_records": ["bwb:9780008283018"], "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q109924109"}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-19T20:35:16.341356"}}