Tey, Josephine

Josephine Tey (the author of popular mystery novels) and Gordon Daviot (a well-known English playwright between 1933 and 1952) were one and the same: the pseudonyms of the reserved, at times even diffident, Scottish author Elizabeth Mackintosh. Little is known about her life; not even the year of her birth can be determined exactly. It was previously believed that she was born in 1897, but it has recently been established that 1896 may be a more accurate estimation. No interviews have been found, she only had a small circle of acquaintances and even her long-standing friends have reported that they never really got to know her well.