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Errol Flynn the writer...
Errol Flynn's first love was writing.
Here i would like to write a bit myself about Errol's writing, i feel it is something he held very dear and it is very often passed over when people talk about him. I personally have read all i can find so far and i feel a bit sad that he did not get to write more in his lifetime.
Errol wrote his autobiography My Wicked, Wicked Ways, he wrote two semi-autobiographical novels Beam Ends and Showdown and in addition wrote articles for the Sydney Bulletin (whilst in PNG under the pen-name "Laloki"), for the magazine "Photoplay" during his first years in Hollywood (and his "holiday" in Spain during the Civil War) and then in 1959 he wrote about the Cuban Revolution during which time he was present alongside Fidel Castro. These writings are compiled in a book called From A Life of Adventure: The Writings of Errol Flynn ed. by Tony Thomas.