Born April 2, 1925, in Carlisle, England; died of cancer, January 2, 2008, on the Isle of Man, England; son of William (a doctor) and Anne Fraser; married Kathleen Margarette Hetherington, April 16, 1949; children: Simon, Caroline, Nicholas. Education: Educated in England and Scotland. Politics: "Totally independent and firmly opposed to party politics." Religion: "Sentimental Presbyterian." Military/Wartime Service: British Army, 1943-45; served in Burma. Indian Army, Gordon Highlanders, 1945-47.

"FLASHMAN" SERIES

• Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842, World Publishing (New York, NY), 1969.
• Royal Flash: From the Flashman Papers, 1842-43 and 1847-48, Knopf (New York, NY), 1970.
• Flash for Freedom!, Knopf (New York, NY), 1971.
• Flashman at the Charge: From the Flashman Papers, 1854-1855, Knopf (New York, NY), 1973, reprinted, HarperCollins (London, England), 2006.
• Flashman in the Great Game: From the Flashman Papers, 1856-1858, Knopf (New York, NY), 1975, reprinted, HarperCollins (London, England), 2006.
• Flashman's Lady, Knopf (New York, NY), 1977.
• Flashman and the Redskins: From the Flashman Papers, 1849-50 and 1875-76, Knopf (New York, NY), 1982, reprinted, HarperCollins (London, England), 2006.
• Flashman and the Dragon: From the Flashman Papers, 1860, Knopf (New York, NY), 1986, reprinted, HarperCollins (London, England), 2006.
• Flashman and the Mountain of Light: From the Flashman Papers, 1845-46, Knopf (New York, NY), 1991.
• Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, HarperCollins, 1994, Knopf (New York, NY), 1995.
• Flashman and the Tiger, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.
• Flashman on the March: From the Flashman Papers, 1867-1868, Knopf (New York, NY), 2005.

• The General Danced at Dawn (short stories), Knopf (New York, NY), 1970.
• McAuslan in the Rough, Knopf (New York, NY), 1974.
• Mr. American, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1980.
• The Pyrates, Knopf (New York, NY), 1984.
• The Sheikh and the Dustbin, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1988.
• The Candlemass Road, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1993.
• Black Ajax, Carroll & Graf (New York, NY), 1998.
• The Reavers, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2008.

• The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers, Knopf (New York, NY), 1971, reprinted, Skyhorse Publishing (New York, NY), 2008.
• (Coauthor) The World of the Public Schools, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1977.
• The Hollywood History of the World: From One Million Years B.C. to Apocalypse Now (film stills), Beech Tree Books (Sag Harbor, NY), 1988.
• Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II (memoir), HarperCollins (London, England), 1994, reprinted, Skyhorse Publishing (New York, NY), 2007.
• The Light's on at Signpost (memoir), HarperCollins (London, England), 2002.

• The Three Musketeers, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973.
• The Four Musketeers, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975.
• Royal Flash (based on his novel of the same title), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975.
• The Prince and the Pauper, Warner Bros., 1977 , also released as Crossed Swords, 1978.
• (Coauthor) Force 10 from Navarone, Columbia Pictures, 1978.
• Octopussy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1983.
• Red Sonia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985.
• Casanova (television movie), 1987.
• The Return of the Musketeers, 1989.

Also edited scripts written by others.