Marie Belloc Lowndes
MARIE BELLOC LOWNDES was born into a famous Anglo-French family in London in 1868. Her younger brother was the famous novelist, poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc. She married Frederick Lowndes in 1896. Her first book, a biography of the Prince of Wales (later to become Edward VII), was published in 1898, after which she produced a steady stream of novels and plays and occasional memoirs. Her most famous novel The Lodger was first published in 1913, directly before Noted Murder Mysteries. She died in 1947.
