Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 - 27 June 1942), whose name was recorded after his birth as Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author.
He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features.
His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K.
Jerome and W.
Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.
Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.
George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, inf.
