{"birth_date": "1 February 1908", "alternate_names": ["Sterry Browning", "James Gannett", "Landon Grant", "Leo Grex", "Louis Grey", "Piers Marlowe", "Dexter Muir", "Bruce Sanders", "MR L GRIBBLE", "Leonard Gribble", "L. Gribble", "Leonard Reginald Gribble", "Leonard GRIBBLE", "Leonard Gribble (Ed.)", "Leonard & Various Authors Gribble", "LEONARD GRIBBLE", "Leonard R. (Leonard Reginald) Gribble", "GRIBBLE LEONARD", "Leonard R. GRIBBLE", "leonard gribble"], "death_date": "27 September 1985", "name": "Leonard R. Gribble", "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q3229670"}, "fuller_name": "Leonard Reginald Gribble", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Leonard Reginald Gribble was born in 1908 in Barnstaple, Devon, England. He was a prolific author who wrote under several pseudonyms. He served in the Press and Censorship Division of the Ministry of Information in London from 1940-45. He was a founding member of the Crime Writers Association in 1953, and also wrote Westerns (under the name Landon Grant) and books on nonfiction subjects such as criminology, as well as producing compilations and editorial works."}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "personal_name": "Leonard R. Gribble", "source_records": ["promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-03-02", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-12-29", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-03-19", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-02-11", "bwb:9781015252011", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-07-11:KR-030-351", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-01-30:KT-965-131", "ia:bwb_KJ-941-740", "ia:bwb_KP-662-460", "ia:bwb_KU-708-135"], "key": "/authors/OL1046763A", "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-04T07:34:57.873502"}}