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British author George MacDonald Fraser, creator of much-loved Flashman series, dies

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20080102
Author:JILL LAWLESS

Author George MacDonald Fraser, the creator of the much-loved "Flashman" series, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82.

Fraser died following a battle with cancer, said Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Knofp, which will release Fraser's latest work "The Reavers" in the United States in April. Latimer was unable to provide details of where Fraser died. He lived on the Isle of Man, off the coast of northwest England.

Born in Carlisle, northern England in 1925, Fraser served with the British Army in India and Burma during World War II, and ...

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