Ernest Temple Thurston was an Anglo-Irish

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 poet

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, playwright

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 and author

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. He was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, and his family moved to Cork

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 when he was aged ten. In 1901 he married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden

Katherine Cecil Thurston

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, (1875-1911). The marriage did not last and they separated in 1907 and were formally divorced in 1910.

E. Temple Thurston wrote forty books from which seventeen motion pictures were made. As well, he authored several theatrical

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 plays

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, three of which were performed on Broadway

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 and four were made into motion pictures. His best known work for the stage is The Wandering Jew

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, a play in four parts that was performed on Broadway

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 in 1921 and made into a film in 1933. His third wife Emily published the play as a novel in 1934.

His most successful books include The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1909) and The Flower of Gloster (1911) about a canal journey in England.

E. Temple Thurston died from influenza and pneumonia in London

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 in 1933.

Bibliography:

• The Apple of Eden (1905)
• Katherine (1905)
• Traffic, The story of a faithful woman (1906)
• Mirage (1908)
• The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1909)
• The Apple of Eden (1910)
• The Greatest Wish in the World (1910)
• Sally Bishop, a Romance (1910)
• The Patchwork Papers (1910)
• The Garden of Resurrection (1911)
• The Flower of Gloster (1911)
• The Antagonists (1912)
• Thirteen (1912)
• The Open Window (1913)
• Richard Furlong (1913)
• The Achievement (1914)
• The passionate crime; a tale of a faerie (1915)
• The Five-barred Gate (1916)
• Enchantment (1917)
• The Nature of the Beast (1918)
• David & Jonathan (1918)
• Sheepskins & Grey Russet (1919)
• The World of Wonderful Reality (1919)
• The Green Bough (1921)
• The Eye of the Wift (1922)
• The Miracle (1922)
• Judas Iscariot; a play in four acts (1923)
• A Roof and Four Walls, a comedy in four acts (1923)
• May Eve (1923)
• Charmeuse (1924)
• Mr. Bottleby Does Something (1925)
• Snobs; a farcical comedy in one act (1925)
• The Goose-feather Bed (1926)
• Jane Carroll (1927)
• Millennium (1927)
• Portrait of a Spy (1929)
• Man in a Black Hat (1930)
• The Broken Heart (1932)
• A Hank of Hair (1932)
• The Diamond Pendant (1932)

Broadway plays:

• The Blue Peter (1925)
• The Wandering Jew
  Wandering Jew
  The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming...
  
  (1921)
• Driven (1914)

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