Rohmer, Sax

Rohmer, Sax

▪ British writer
pseudonym of  Arthur Sarsfield Wade, or Ward  
born 1883?, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.
died June 1, 1959, London

      internationally popular British writer who created the sinister Chinese criminal genius Fu Manchu, the hero-villain of many novels. The character Fu Manchu later appeared in motion pictures, radio, and television.

      Rohmer was interested from childhood in ancient Egypt, the Middle East, and the occult. After working briefly in the financial district of London and as a journalist there, his growing interest in the Far East led him into fiction writing. He published Dr. Fu Manchu, the first of the series, in 1913. The inscrutable and aristocratic Fu immediately caught the public's fancy, and Rohmer wrote several more novels about him over the next 45 years. These volumes include The Devil Doctor (1916), The Trail of Fu Manchu (1934), and Emperor Fu Manchu (1959), the latter written while Rohmer was living in the United States. Rohmer gradually transformed Fu Manchu from an entirely self-serving villain into a dedicated anti-Communist.

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