Author: Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah, was born in Manchester. At seventeen he chose farming as a profession, but after three years of losing money gave it up to go into journalism. He started as correspondent on a typical provincial paper, then went to London as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome, and worked himself into the editorial side of Jerome's magazine "To-day", where he got the opportunity of meeting the most important literary figures of the day. But he soon left "To-day" to join a new publishing firm, as editor of a publication called "The Minister"; finally, after two years of this, he turned to writing as his full-time occupation. He was intensely interested in coins and published a book on the English regal copper coinage. He is, however, best known as the creator of the charming character Kai Lung who appears in 'Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat', 'Kai Lung's Golden Hours', 'The Wallet of Kai Lang', 'The Mirror of Kong Ho', and 'The Moon of Much Gladness'; he also wrote detectives 'Max Carrados', 'The Eyes of Max Carrados' and many stories and articles in leading periodicals.
