Alan Burgess, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alan Burgess

writer

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1915

Place of Birth: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Apr-1998

Profession: writer, biographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Alan Burgess (1 February 1915 – 10 April 1998) was an RAF pilot and English author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s.
He wrote biographies of Gladys Aylward, and Flora Sandes, and co-wrote Ingrid Bergman's autobiography.
Bergman played Gladys Aylward in the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness based on Burgess's biography. Having served in the RAF during World War II, he went on to write The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape, the story of "the Great Escape".