Who was the author of the 'Alan Quatermain' series and the 'Ayesha' series of novels, who was born on June 22nd. 1856?
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a 1986 American adventure comedy film directed by Gary Nelson and released in West Germany on December 18, 1986, and in the United States on January 30, 1987. It is loosely based on the novel "Allan Quatermain" by H. Rider Haggard. It is the sequel to "King Solomon's Mines". The role of Allan Quatermain is reprised by Richard Chamberlain as is that of Jesse Huston by Sharon Stone, who was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for this role, for
Allan Quatermain (Haggard's questionable spelling of Zulu names is used in the first instance). These novels are prequels to the foundation pair, "King Solomon's Mines" (1885) and "Allan Quatermain" (1887), which describe Quatermain's discovery of vast wealth, his discontent with a life of ease, and his fatal return to Africa following the death of his son Harry. With "She and Allan" (1920), Haggard engineered a crossover between his two most popular series, uniting Quatermain with Ayesha, the central character of his hugely successful "She" novels, and bringing in several other key characters from each series—Hans, Umslopogaas, and Zikali from the Quatermain series,