James Clavell (10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994), born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, was an Australian-born British (later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is known best for his The Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations. Clavell was a screenwriter for movies as The Great Escape (1963) and To Sir, with Love (1967). He also wrote an episode of an early science fiction TV series 'Men Into Space' during 1959, titled 'First Woman on the Moon'. Wikipedia
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