Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 8 July 1933), was a British novelist and playwright.[1] He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous ficti...