Book Cover of H. De Vere Stacpoole

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Lifetime: 1863 - 1951 Passed: ≈ 72 years ago

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Author

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Ireland, United Kingdom
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H. De Vere Stacpoole

Henry de Vere Stacpoole was an Irish author. His best-known work is the 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which has been adapted into multiple films. He published using his own name and sometimes the pseudonym Tyler de Saix.

De Vere Stacpoole was born in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Ireland, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

After a brief career as a ship's doctor, which took him to numerous exotic locations in the South Pacific Ocean, later used in his fiction, he became a full-time writer, able to live comfortably after the success of The Blue Lagoon.

He lived in the Essex countryside in England, before relocating to the Isle of Wight in the 1920s, where he remained until his death. He was buried at St Boniface Church, Bonchurch, on the Isle of Wight in 1951.

Books by H. De Vere Stacpoole

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The Blue Lagoon

Romance Fiction Novel
Children's Literature Island

The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and was first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1908. It is the first novel of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, which also includes The Garden of God (1923) and The Gates of Morning (1925)....

The Man Who Lost Himself  Cover image

The Man Who Lost Himself

Comedy Drama
Luck Success America United States Failure General Fiction

This is a wonderful story about a penniless American man who accidently meets his double in a crowded Hotel lounge. His lookalike "liquors him up" and the next thing he knows he is waking up in a posh bedroom and being called the Earl of Rochester.