English writer of school stories (1876–1961)
Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (8 August 1876 – 24 December 1961) was an English writer. He is best known for his stories about Billy Bunter, written under the pseudonym Frank Richards, and initially published in the comic book "The Magnet", later as hardback novels.
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Charles Harold St. John Hamilton
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Frank Richards
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Martin Clifford
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Owen Conquest
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Ralph Redway
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Hilda Richards
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The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel like a different person, and in consequence write from a somewhat different angle. I have been told - by men who do not write - that this is all fanciful. This only means that they don't understand.