E.W. Hornung was born on June 7, 1866 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Raffles (1939), Raffles (1930) and Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925). He was married to Constance Conan Doyle. He died on March 22, 1921 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
English writer of crime stories, the creator of gentleman burglar and sleuth, A. J. Raffles. He was the son of a Hungarian coal and iron merchant, in Britain from the 1840's.