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Edith Templeton (7 April 1916 in Prague, Austria-Hungary – 12 June 2006 in Bordighera, Italy) was a Bohemian novelist,[1] who also wrote under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook.
Templeton was born Edith Passerová in Prague in 1916, to wealthy Bohemian parents.[2] She spent the first four years of her life in Vienna,[1] before moving back to what had become Czechoslovakia with her mother, to the home of her grandparents in Jirny.[1] She was educated at the French Lycée in Prague,[2][3] and left the city in 1938 to marry an English aeronautical engineer named Templeton.[1][3] The marriage was violent and short-lived,[1] and by 1946 she had settled in Bayswater, London,[3] and was a captain in the British Army.[3][2]
Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the 1950s,[3] starting in 1957,[2] and were later published as a collection entitled The Darts of Cupid in 2002.[2][3] Over the next several decades she published a number of novels as well as a travel book, The Surprise of Cremona. Edith Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband,[2] a cardiologist and the physician to the King of Nepal.[1] Her novel Gordon was first published by Olympia Press in 1966 under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook. An autobiographical work based on Templeton's relationship with a Scottish psychiatrist,[3][2] it was banned in England and Germany for indecency,[1][3] and then grew in popularity and was pirated around the world,[2] before eventually being republished under the author's real name in 2003.[1]
She lived in various parts of Europe and made her final home in Bordighera, on the Italian Riviera.[1] She died on 12 June 2006, aged 90.
