Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Ward, who later added the name Sarsfield and wrote as Sax Rohmer, was an English novelist born in Birmingham in 1883 to working-class parents of Irish descent. He is best known for the Fu Manchu novels, begun in 1913, which made him one of the most commercially successful authors of the 1920s and 1930s. He also wrote supernatural and adventure fiction, including Brood of the Witch-Queen and the Sumuru books. The Fu Manchu series has been widely criticised for its ethnic stereotyping. He died in London in 1959.