A novelist and a non-fiction writer from the British Raj era, Norah Burke was born on 2nd August 1907 in Bedford, New England.

She spent much of her childhood in India where her father was posted as a forest officer. The Indian wildlife  and the natural setting of the jungles, grasslands and the mountain foothills had a considerable influence on her writing.

Burke started writing when she was young (and by young, we mean eight years old ) and even came up with her own magazine titled The Monthly Dorrit. 1919 saw her return to England and begin her formal education and by 1933 she had published her first novel, Dark Road. By 1950 she had authored about one dozen novels, numerous short stories and a significant collection of non-fiction writings .

Her works  mainly catered to the European audience and gained great popularity across Europe and on the other side of the Atlantic.

Burke’s travel writing and autobiographical accounts of adventure were especially popular and included books like Jungle Child, Tiger Country, The Midnight Forest and Jungle Days. Her close association with wildlife and nature in the British Raj India is reflected in many of such works, one of which includes the short story The Blue Bead.

Norah Burke died in 1976 in Suffolk, England.

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