Thomas Burke (author)
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Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Clapham Junction, London.
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Born | (1886-11-29)29 November 1886 Clapham Junction, London, England |
Died | 22 September 1945(1945-09-22) (aged 58) Homeopathic Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, England |
Occupation | Novelist, journalist, poet |
Literary movement | Modernism, Realism |
His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights (1916), a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. Many of Burke's books feature the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator.
"The Lamplit Hour", an incidental poem from Limehouse Nights, was set to music in the United States by Arthur Penn in 1919.[1] That same year, American film director D. W. Griffith used another tale from the collection, "The Chink and the Child" as the basis of his screenplay for the movie Broken Blossoms. Griffith based his film Dream Street (1921) on Burke's "Gina of Chinatown" and "Song of the Lamp".