A natural vocation done badly

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Via Bookslut, here's Ronald Hutton on Dennis Wheatley in the TLS:

He had inherited a family wine business, but broke it through extravagance and turned immediately to writing, which was his natural vocation. In one sense, he did it badly: he could never spell properly, had a poor literary style and committed howlers. His editors weeded out most of these, but one story still made Copenhagen the capital of Sweden.