Anthony Hope, born Anthony Hope Hawkins on February 9, 1863, in London, was a noted English novelist and playwright, renowned for his works of adventure and romance. His literary career flourished with the publication of 'The Prisoner of Zenda' in 1894, which along with its sequel 'Rupert of Hentzau' (1898) has come to define the Ruritanian romance genre — stories set in a fictional country usuall...