Dorothy Kathleen Broster

Dorothy Kathleen Broster better known as D K Broster was born in 1877 near Liverpool. She earned a degree in Modern History at Oxford and worked as a nurse in the First World War. Better known as a mainstream novelist with her bestselling Jacobite trilogy, The Flight of the Heron (1925), The Gleam in the North (1927), and The Dark Mile (1929). Most of her supernatural fiction appeared in two collections: A Fire of Driftwood (1932) and Couching at the Door (1942). An intensely private individual but many readers deduced from her name that she was both a man and Scottish. She died in Bexhill Hospital on 7th February 1950. She was 73.