H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa.
* He was born on June 22, 1856, in Bradenham, Norfolk, England.
* He was the eighth of ten children.
* His father was a barrister and his mother was an author and poet.
* He traveled to South Africa in 1875 and worked as a secretary to the governor of Natal.
* He returned to England in 1878 and married Mariana Louisa Margitson in 1880.
* He wrote over 50 novels, including King Solomon's Mines (1885), She (1887), and Allan Quatermain (1887).
* He was knighted in 1912.
* He died on May 14, 1925, in London, England.