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Old 17-09-20, 14:27
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Default Lorna Nicholl Morgan

Someone - I assume a woman - wrote four novels under that name between 1944 and 1947.

No more, no less.

Either subsequent novels were a different genre and so written under a different name, or she married/died/changed profession

Her last novel, a murder mystery, suggests a youngish but assured hand. As her heroine, with nothing to suggest a reason, has a Welsh name, I suspect Welsh roots.

Nobody seems to know anything about the author.

Can anyone find out anything, bearing in mind that this may be a pen-name?
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I've found out there's no S on the Nicholl
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US Social Security Applications and Claims Index, on Ancestry:

Name: Lorna Nicholl Morgan [Lorna N Morgan] [Lorna Nicholl Bennett]
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1913
Birth Place: New Malden S, United Kingdom
Death Date: 15 Nov 1993
Claim Date: 17 Jul 1975
Father: Edgar G Bennett
Mother: Isabelle A Watkins
SSN: 085300462
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There is a birth reg for Lorna Bennett, MMN Watkins, Jul-Sep 1913 Kingston.

And a marriage Jan-Mar 1937 Pancras between Lorna Bennett and Geoffrey C N Morgan. I bet the N in his name stands for Nicholl.
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Okay, Geoffrey C N Morgan birth reg Oct-Dec 1910 Cardiff. Looking on the GRO site, his full name was Geoffrey Charles Nicholl Morgan.
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Well done Kate.
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She actually died in England - Lorna Morgan dob 20 Aug 1913, died Nov 1993 Hastings and Rother, East Sussex.

The US Social Security Index shows her SSN was issued between 1954 and 1956 in New York.
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Geoffrey Morgan is a journalist in 1939.
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National Probate Calendar:

Morgan, Lorna
Of 44 Collier Road Hastings East Sussex
Died 16 November 1993 Administration Brighton 23 December [1993]
Not exceeding £125000
9351326171R.
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Lorna Morgan, 41, novelist, travelling to New York in July 1954:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...&pId=138846228

Country of intended future permanent residence: USA.
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