H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard was born in 1856 in Bradenham, Norfolk, England, the eighth of ten children of a lawyer and landowner. Not considered as bright as his brothers, he was sent at nineteen to work as an unpaid assistant to the governor of Natal, in southern Africa. He served in the British administration of the Transvaal and later managed an ostrich farm. He returned to England in 1882, studied law, and was called to the bar, but he turned to writing. King Solomon's Mines (1885), the story of the hunter Allan Quatermain and his companions searching for a lost diamond mine in Africa, was written in a few weeks after a bet with his brother that he could write a better book than Treasure Island. It was a great success and began the 'lost world' adventure genre. She (1887), about an immortal queen in a hidden African city, was also hugely popular. Haggard wrote dozens of novels and books on farming and rural England, served on government commissions, and was knighted in 1912. He died in London in 1925.

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