MINOR MAGUS.

DUNSANY, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, 1878-1957; IRISH authors; FANTASY fiction; ARISTOCRACY (Social class); GENIUS; GODS of Pegana, The (Book)

Presents a biography of fantasy writer Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron Dunsany. His writings, including the quasi-Oriental mythology "The Gods of Pegana" and plays; Exclusion of Dunsany from Ireland's literary elite early in his writing career; How his birth into aristocracy may have prevented his development into a literary great; His preoccupation about being viewed as a genius rather than a dilettante.