Baroness Emma Orczy (1865-1945) was born in Hungary, the daughter
of a baron. Raised in wealth among the aristocracy, she determined
to achieve success as a painter and illustrator before starting a
writing career. She wrote in English, although she did not speak
the language until she was fifteen, and she produced many short
stories and detective novels. Her greatest success came with the
historical adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Ralph Cosham (1936-2014), a.k.a. Geoffrey Howard, was a British
journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and
stage actor. He performed in more than one hundred professional
theatrical roles, and several of his narrations were named "Audio
Best of the Year" by Publishers Weekly. He won seven AudioFile
Earphones Awards, and in 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for
Best Mystery Narration for his reading of Louise Penny's The
Beautiful Mystery.
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