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- Birth nameRalph Hammond Innes
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Hammond Innes was born on July 15, 1913 in Horsham, Sussex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Hell Below Zero (1954), The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) and Snowbound (1948). He was married to Dorothy Mary Lang. He died on June 10, 1998 in Suffolk, England, UK.
- SpouseDorothy Mary Lang(1937 - 1989) (her death)
- He was awarded a CBE (Commander, Order of the British Empire) in 1978.
- The American magazine "Holiday" paid Innes to visit and write about both the Russian frontier of Norway and The Pirate Coast (today the United Arab Emirates).
- Innes and his wife visited Morocco in 1951-1952, to research his 1954 novel "The Naked Land".
- English author and world traveler born in Horsham, Sussex, the neighborhood where Percy Bysshe Shelley was also born.
- Journalist at the Financial Times (1934-1940), then served with the Royal Artillery during World War II, during which he began writing adventure novels. His novels, which take place in many locations around the world and which deal with such topics as spies and intrigue, black markets, counterfeiters, liquor-running, skiing, whaling, exploring, and shipwreck, were popular among readers and reviewers.
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