M.M. Kaye

M.M. Kaye was a bestselling British author of Mystery &Thrillers, Children’s Books and Literature & Fiction books. She was born on August 21st, 1908 in India to Margaret Sarah Bryson and her husband, Sir Cecil Kaye. The author’s father was an intelligence officer serving in the Indian Army and at the age of 10 Kaye was sent to England to study in a boarding school and later studied children’s book illustration and earned some money through designing Christmas cards. She returned to India to live with her family in 1926 but after the death of their father and angered by her mother’s pressure to find a junior officer in the military to marry she returned to England.