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Thomas Anstey Guthrie
writer
- Birth name:
- Thomas Anstey Guthrie
- Born:
- 1856-08-08, Kensington, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1934-03-11
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Born on the eighth of August 1856 in Kensington’s winding streets, Thomas Anstey Guthrie grew up amid London’s gas-lamp glow and would later spin that city’s bustle into fiction. Writing under the pen-name “Anstey,” he conjured comic novels and playful fantasies that leapt from page to stage and, eventually, to celluloid. Hollywood borrowed his wit for the 1948 musical “One Touch of Venus,” while silent-era Britain filmed his mischievous tale “The Fourteenth Man” in 1920. A decade later, his story “Guest of Honour” reached cinemas in 1934—the same year, on 11 March, that the author himself took his final bow.
