Rider Haggard
/ˌraɪdə ˈhæɡəd/
/ˌraɪdər ˈhæɡərd/
- (1856-1925) an English writer of exciting adventure stories. The best known of these, King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1887), are set in southern Africa, where Haggard worked for many years. He was made a knight in 1912.