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Flashman author dies aged 82 after cancer battle

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20080103
Author:BENEDICT MOORE-BRIDGER

GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER, author of the hugely entertaining Flashman novels, has died aged 82.

Fraser whose fans included P G Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis died after a battle with cancer.

He wrote the first novel of the Flashman Papers in 1969 after he quit as assistant editor of the Glasgow Herald. The book imagines what happened after Flashman the bully in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays was expelled from Rugby for drunkenness.

Eleven more novels were to follow in the series, during which Flashman the most lily-livered hero in Victorian England fornicates and brawls his way round ...

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