Arthur Ransome
- Arthur Michell Ransome
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- Ransome, Arthur
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- Male
- Date of birth
- 1884-01-18
- Place of birth
- Leeds
- Date of death
- 1967-06-03
- Place of death
- Greater Manchester
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Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The entire series remains in print, and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.
He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected by MI5 of being a Soviet spy.
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English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads.
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- Arthur Ransome wrote Coot Club
- Arthur Ransome wrote Winter Holiday
- Arthur Ransome wrote The Big Six
- Arthur Ransome wrote Peter Duck
- Arthur Ransome wrote Swallowdale
- Arthur Ransome wrote Pigeon Post
- Arthur Ransome wrote Missee Lee
- Arthur Ransome wrote Secret Water
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