Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was a reclusive English author of remarkable range: the witty, mock-Chinese Kai Lung stories, the pioneering blind detective Max Carrados, and the early dystopian novel The Secret of the League (1907), which imagines a near-future class conflict and is sometimes credited among the ancestors of Orwell. A stylist’s stylist, admired by connoisseurs of the fantastic.