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John Burke
| Full Name: | John Frederick Burke |
| Born: | March 8, 1922 Rye, Sussex, England, UK |
| Died: | September 20, 2011 |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | British |
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Biography
John Burke also writes under the pen name of Robert Miall
John Burke was an English writer of science fiction, suspense, and psychological thriller novels and short stories. Burke was educated at Holt High School, Liverpool, now known as Childwall Academy. He served in the Royal Air Force, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and the Royal Marines during the war.
After working for the publishers Museum Press and the Books for Pleasure Group, he was a Public Relations and Publications Executive for Shell (1959-63) and Story Editor for Twentieth Century-Fox (1963-65) before becoming a full-time writer in 1966.
For more than thirty years Burke novelised a large number of stage plays, film and TV scripts. He edited a trilogy of anthologies under the "Unease" banner. His work was recognized with the Atlantic Award in Literature.
In addition to John Burke, he published under the names J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, Jonathan George, Robert Miall, Martin Sands, Owen Burke, Sara Morris, Russ Ames, Roger Rougiere, Joanna Jones and, as a co-author with his wife Jean Burke, under the name Harriet Esmond.
