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Canadian writer (1885–1965)

Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 – October 8, 1965) was a Canadian-American journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.

Life

Costain was born in Brantford, Ontario to John Herbert Costain and Mary Schultz.^[1] He attended high school there at the Brantford Collegiate Institute.^[2] Before graduating from high school, he had written four novels, one of which was a 70,000 word romance about Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

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These early novels were rejected by publishers.^{[citation needed]}

His first writing success came in 1902 when the Brantford Courier accepted a mystery story from him, and he became a reporter there (for five dollars a week).

He was an editor at the Guelph Daily Mercury between 1908 and 1910. He married Ida Randolph Spragge (1888–1975) in York Township, Ontario on January 12, 1910. The couple had two children, Molly (Mrs. Howa