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M. M. Kaye
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye (21 August 1908 – 29 January 2004) was a British writer. Her most famous book is ''The Far Pavilions'' (1978).
==Life==
M. M. Kaye was born in Simla, India, and spent her early childhood and much of her early-married life there. Her family ties with the country are strong: her father, Sir Cecil Kaye was an intelligence officer in the Indian Army; her grandfather, brother and husband all served the British Raj and her grandfather's cousin, Sir John Kaye, wrote the standard accounts of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the First Afghan War. After India's independence, her husband, Major-General Goff Hamilton of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (the famous Indian Army regiment featured in ''The Far Pavilions''), joined the British Army and for the next nineteen years M. M. Kaye followed the drum to Kenya, Zanzibar, Egypt, Cyprus and Germany.
M. M. Kaye won worldwide fame for ''The Far Pavilions'', which became a worldwide best-seller on publication in 1978. ''Shadow of the Moon'' and ''Trade Wind'', although originally published prior to ''The Far Pavilions'', were reissued after that novel's success. She also wrote and illustrated ''The Ordinary Princess'', a children's book (called "refreshingly unsentimental" by an article in Horn Book Magazine) which she originally wrote as a short story, and wrote a half a dozen detective novels, including ''Death in Kashmir'' and ''Death in Zanzibar''. Her autobiography has been published in three volumes, collectively entitled ''Share of Summer: The Sun in the Morning, Golden Afternoon,'' and ''Enchanted Evening''. In March 2003, M. M. Kaye was awarded the Colonel James Tod International Award by the Maharana Mewar Foundation of Udaipur, Rajasthan, for her "contribution of permanent value reflecting the spirit and values of Mewar".
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