Digby George Gerahty (3 April 1898 – 6 November 1981), who wrote mostly under the pen-names of Robert Standish and Stephen Lister, was an English novelist and short story writer most productive during the 1940s and 1950s.
[1] In the semi-autobiographical Marise (1950), Gerahty (writing as "Stephen Lister") claimed that he and two publicist colleagues had covertly "invented" the Loch Ness Monster in 1933 as part of a contract to improve business for local hotels; he repeated his claim to Henry Bauer, a researcher, in 1980.
He joined the Royal Air Force on 7 July 1917[6] and served until 15 February 1919, leaving with a temporary commission as 2nd lieutenant.
At various points of his life he lived in or travelled through Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Australia and New Zealand.
[9] Gerahty died at his home in Valbonne, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the South of France, aged 83.