In what year was the subject of Frederick Drimmer's book "The Elephant Man" born?
Frederick Drimmer Frederick Drimmer (August 7, 1916 – December 24, 2000) is the author of "The Elephant Man", a book about Joseph Merrick, who suffered from Proteus Syndrome. He is also the author of "Very Special People", about famous sideshow people and the deformed, and "Until You are Dead...", concerning the history of executions in the United States.
George P. Sanderson George Peress Sanderson (1848 – 1892) was a British naturalist who worked in the public works department in the princely state of Mysore. He began a system for capturing wild elephants that were destructive to agriculture so as to use them in captivity. He was known in the popular press as the "Elephant King" and wrote a book on his life in the forests of India. Rudyard Kipling is believed to have modelled the character "Petersen Sahib" in his "Toomai of the elephants" after him.