Children's writer, born in London, UK. Educated privately, he wrote stories for magazines and comics while still a schoolboy. As a professional writer, he produced 70 000 words a week under various pseudonyms for Gem, Magnet, and other papers. He created Billy Bunter and Greyfriars School for The Magnet, and after World War 2, wrote numerous books about Billy Bunter and Tom Merry, becoming the most prolific author in the history of juvenile fiction.
Frank Richards may be:
Frank "Cannonball" Richards, a vaudeville performer whose act involved being shot in the gut with a cannonball the pseudonym of Charles Hamilton (August 8, 1876 - December 24, 1961), the prolific writer of the Billy Bunter stories set in Greyfriars School the pseudonym of Francis Philip Woodruff, (1883-1961), who published Old Soldiers Never Die, his memoirs of service in the British army during World War I. If an article link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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