ELLESTON TREVOR bio:
Elleston Trevor’s novels, plays, and short stories range from light, witty mysteries to dramas, usually about ordinary individuals experiencing extraordinary situations. To cover a wide diversity of subject matter Elleston wrote under various pseudonyms: Adam Hall, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Simon Rattray, Mansell Black, Caesar Smith, Howard North, Warwick Scott, and even a woman’s name, Leslie Stone. Elleston is best known for his classic, The Flight of the Phoenix, and for his nineteen novels about a spy named Quiller. In 1966, The Quiller Memorandum won the Edgar award for the best mystery of the year. The Flight of the Phoenix and Quiller Memorandum both became major motion pictures. The author was born Trevor Dudley Smith in London on February 17, 1920. He died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on July 21, 1995.
CHAILLE TREVOR bio:
Chaille Trevor was born in Chicago and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, the University of Colorado, and Arizona State University, where she graduated in 1968. At this time she began training and showing horses owned by her grandfather, Ed Tweed, a prominent breeder of Arabian horses and owner of Brusally Ranches.
In 1987 Chaille married author Elleston Trevor in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The following years were blissful. Shortly after his death in 1995, Chaille began writing a memoir about the man, his work, and their life together. She is currently at work on another memoir: A Riding Life.
