Edith Maude Hull

E. M. Hull was a British novelist, best known for her romantic novel The Sheik.

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Edith Maude Hall was her pseudonym for Edith Maude Winstanley née Henderson. She was born on 16 August 1880 in Hampstead, London.

During her husband's wartime she began to write "desert romances".This genre was actually created by E. M. Hull herself.

One of her first novels was "the shiek" which was published in 1919 and became a bestseller in 1921.It even was placed on the Publisher's Weekly's top ten list in the years 1921 and 1922. "The shiek" was sold 1,2 Million times worldwide. The book itself was made into a film by George Melford in 1921 with Rudolph Valentino as "The Shiek". Valentino was seen as "the greatest lover of the silent screen"

Hull continued writing until the 30's and had another success with the book "Sons of the Sheik" (1925), which was also made into a film with Rudolph Valentino.

Hull died at the age of 66 on the 11 February 1947 in Hazlewood, Derbyshire.

Works

E M Hull, The Sheik, 1921, Small Maynard and Co

• E M Hull, The Shadow of the East, 1921, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson

• E M Hull, The Desert Healer, 1923, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson

• E M Hull, Camping in the Sahara, 1926, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson

• E M Hull, The Sons of the Sheik, 1926, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson

• E M Hull, The Lion Tamer, 1928, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson

• E M Hull, The Captive of the Saharah, 1931, Dodd, Mead and Co

• E M Hull, The Forest of Terrible Things, 1939, Hutchinson and Company

Sources

• "AIM25 Collection Description." AIM25 Archive. <http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=10583&inst_id=65&nv1=search&nv2=>.
• "Edith Maude Hull - Author Profile." Public Bookshelf. <http://www.publicbookshelf.com/author/Edith-Maude-Hull>.
• "E.M. Hull." Wikipedia. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Maude_Hull>.