Edith Templeton (7 April 1916 in Prague, Austria-Hungary – 12 June 2006 in Bordighera, Italy) was a Bohemian novelist,[1] who also wrote under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook.
[2] She spent the first four years of her life in Vienna,[1] before moving back to what had become Czechoslovakia with her mother, to the home of her grandparents in Jirny.
[1] She was educated at the French Lycée in Prague,[2][3] and left the city in 1938 to marry an English aeronautical engineer named Templeton.
Edith Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband,[2] a cardiologist and the physician to the King of Nepal.
An autobiographical work based on Templeton's relationship with a Scottish psychiatrist,[3][2] it was banned in England and Germany for indecency,[1][3] and then grew in popularity and was pirated around the world,[2] before eventually being republished under the author's real name in 2003.