Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey was the pen name of author Elizabeth Mackintosh, who used to write her novels under this pseudonym. She was famous for writing mystery novels during the time of World War I. She used to adopt another pseudonym of Gordon Daviot for writing interesting mystery novels. The name Josphine Tey is coined by the names of her mother Josephine and an English grandmother’s surname. Tey was born in the year 1896 in Inverness, Scotland, UK. She has written around six novels based on mystery and thriller genres most of which revolve around the life of the fictional character Alan Grant who is an Inspector in the Scotland Yard. Tey was the daughter of Josephine and Colin Mackintosh. She attended the Inverness Royal Academy and later the Ansten Physical Training College in Birmingham. After her graduation, Tey began teaching physical training in a number of schools in Scotland and England. She had to give his career as a teacher and return back to Inverness in order to look after her sick father. This was the turning point in the life of Josephine Tey as she tried her hand at writing mystery novels. She began to feel the ease of writing novels by staying at homes and decided to take up writing as her career. Tey wrote her first novel under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot featuring Scotland Yard’s Inspector Alan Grant as the hero. Other than that, all the remaining novels were written under the name of Josephine Tey.