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FOUR COMPLETE NOVELSYOUR TURN, MR. MOTOTHINK FAST, MR. MOTOMR. MOTO IS SO SORRYRIGHT YOU ARE, MR. MOTOJOHN P. MARQUAND was born in 1893 in Wilmington, Delaware. Marquand graduated from Harvard in 1915, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. He worked as a reporter for the Boston Transcript and the New York Herald Tribune and served as a lieutenant in the army during World War I.An extremely popular writer, Marquand was noted for his novels of manners, which earned him the title of “martini-aged Victorian.” In 1938 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Late George Apley.His character Mr. Moto, a Japanese agent, was a highly successful creation, both in the book and in the movie version, in which Peter Lorre played Mr. Moto.Marquand died in 1960 in Newbury, Massachusetts.Pages of Mr. Moto Omnibus :