J. R. Hartley - Life Imitates Art

Life Imitates Art

See also: Pseudonyms of notable angling authors

Michael Russell, an author who had brought out a book about fly fishing in 1991, noted how much of a cult figure the fictional Hartley had become, and published it under the pseudonym J. R. Hartley with the title Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days. A further book on the subject followed, under the same pseudonym (J. R. Hartley Casts Again: More Memories of Angling Days).

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