Edgar Jepson

English author Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863-1938) wrote mainstream adventure and detective fiction. He was born in Warwickshire and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford. He lived in Barbados before moving back to London and launching his literary career. He collaborated with authors including John Gawsworth, Arthur Machen and Hugh Clevely and was a translator of Maurice Leblanc's French detective Arsène Lupin. He was also a member of New Bohemians drinking club and edited Vanity Fair magazine. Jepson's son Selwyn Jepson was a crime writer, and his daughter, Margaret (married name Birkinshaw), published novels as Margaret Jepson. His granddaughter is Fay Weldon.