Pirates and derring-do in the seventeenth century!!
Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 - October 8, 1965) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57. From 1934 to 1942, Costain worked as a story editor at Twentieth-Century Fox in Hollywood, started his own magazine (which failed), and began working for Doubleday as an advisory editor. In 1942, his first novel, For My Great Folly, was published. It was set in seventeenth-century Spain and became a best seller.



