Edith Templeton

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Edith Templeton [1](1916, Prague) is a novelist. She was educated at the French lycée in Prague and left the city in 1938 to marry an Englishman. Her first short stories appeared in The New Yorker in the 1950s. She published a number of novels as well as a travel book, The Surprise of Cremona. Edith Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India. Her novel Gordon first appeared in 1966 under a pseudonym and was banned in England and Germany. Currently she lives in Bordighera, Italy.