Dudley Pope

Dudley Pope (1925-1997) was a British writer of naval fiction and naval history, born in Ashford, Kent. He began with nonfiction in the 1950s, including The Battle of the River Plate and Decision at Trafalgar, and moved to fiction with encouragement from C. S. Forester. He is best known for the Lord Ramage series of Napoleonic-era sea novels, which began in 1965 and ran to eighteen books, and for the Yorke series. He died in Marigot, Saint Martin.