Welcome to the home page of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the British novelist and poet who lived from 1803 to 1873. I am best-known today for beginning the 1830 novel Paul Clifford with the following line:

"It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."