Eugene Rasor's Bibliography

Entry: 17685

ID: 17685
Entry Text:

O'Brian, Patrick. Blue at the Mizzen. New York: Norton; London: HarperCollins, 1999, 262 pp. Fiction; Jack Aubrey-Stephen Maturin Series, # 20; extraordinarily successful nautical fiction writer whose best-sellers were set in Nelson era; real name: Richard Patrick Russ, born in London, 1914 (changed to O'Brian in 1945; also, not Irish, as claimed); died January 2000 in Dublin; novel # 21 unfinished; popular spin-offs: Patrick O'Brian Association with Newsletter, Internet Chat Room, CDs, biographies, music, cooking, dictionaries, cult readings, cruises, TV programmmes & interviews, spectacular movie, Master and Commander, symposia.