First Person Paramount
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About the author
Ambrose Pratt (1874–1944) was an English-language author active from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Public information about him is limited: details of his life, nationality, and education are not clearly recorded, and only two of his works are held in this collection. The surviving titles are First Person Paramount and The Living Mummy, which suggest that his writing may involve first-person narration and mummy themes, with a flavor of adventure, suspense, or popular fiction. Owing to the scarcity of sources, it is difficult to confirm the full scope of his work or his literary standing, yet these two books offer a clue to the tastes of popular English-language fiction of the period. Further biographical and bibliographical research would be needed for a fuller understanding.
