Peter de Polnay

Peter de Polnay (Hungarian: Polnay Péter) was a Hungarian-born English novelist and non-fiction writer who wrote over 80 books. Although de Polnay began his first novel on a bet, writing soon became his profession and main source of income. He wrote at a feverish pace, completing forty novels in just forty-five years. After the war, he settled into a fairly predictable pattern of finishing one book in time for the summer holidays and another just ahead of the Christmas season. …