Winston Graham

British novelist Winston Graham, who wrote the popular “Poldark” series, died. Cause of death was not released. He was 93.
Graham wrote 40 books, but he was best known for Poldark, a series of historical novels about a Tory who returns to 18th century Cornwall after the American Revolution. The Poldark story was later turned into a British Broadcasting Corp. television miniseries, starring Robin Ellis and Angharad Rees.
Graham was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was made an officer of the Order of British Empire in 1983.