Artist · United Kingdom

1920 to 2010

Known for

“Modesty Blaise”

No photograph on recordPeter O'Donnell
Cover of Modesty BlaiseModesty Blaise
Born1920
Born inLewisham
First credit1963
CountryUnited Kingdom
Workscreenwriter
Alsowriter
Died2010
Died inBrighton
Comics on record1

Peter O'Donnell.

screenwriter · writer

United Kingdom, 1920 to 2010

In short

Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 to 3 May 2010) was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also a gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent; in 1978, his novel Merlin's Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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Biodata

Born
1920, Lewisham
Died
2010, Brighton
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Active
1963
Work
screenwriter, writer, novelist
Career

Peter O'Donnell, in numbers

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Cover of Modesty Blaise
Known for

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