Robert William Alexander was an Irish writer (usual pen name: Joan Butler) (21 November 1905 - December 17, 1979). With regard to the novels he wrote, under the pen name of Joan Butler, Alexander developed a funny style which echoed that of such authors as Thorne Smith and P. G. Wodehouse
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Biography
Robert was born on 21 November 1905, in his family's house at Railway Avenue, Sutton, County Dublin, some 12 km northeast of the city center. Robert's father was an electrical engineer who worked with the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). The company ran the Hill of Howth Tramway, which ran between Sutton and Howth railway station, which opened in 1901. The Alexanders were the first family to take possession of one of the houses built by the company for the engineers, in Railway Avenue. The family remained settled there during Robert's (Bobby's) youth. Robert was the fourth son and the youngest child. Mary was the eldest, and John (Jack) and Ellen Christina (Eileen) followed later. Their parents, James and Ellen, were born in Waterford and moved to Dublin when they married.
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List of published works
- All Change
- Full House
- Double Figures
- The Light Lover
- Space To Let
- The Old Firm
- Paper money
- Gilt Edged
- Bed And Breakfast
- Lucky Dip
- Ready cash
- Trouble Brewing
- Inside work
- Unnatural Hazards
- Deep Freeze
- Mixed Pickle
- Home run
- Soothing syrup
- El tiro por la culata (Half shot)
- Donde menos se piensa salta un heredero
- The Heavy Husband
- Team Work
- Shirty Work
- The heavy husband
- Cloudy Weather
- Ground bait
- Sheet Lightning
- Rapid Fire
- Landed Gentry
- A celebration: Sixty years of children's reading 1925-1985
- Bridal Suite
- Something Rich
- Set Fair
- Heat Haze
- Half Holiday
- Strictly Speaking
References
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