Ken de Courcy

{{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Kenneth William Gurney de Courcy Tyler | birth_day = March | birth_year = 1922 | birth_place = U.K. | death_day = July 24, | death_year = 2008 | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | known_for = | notable works = | flourished = | awards = | box_width = | misc = } Ken de Courcy (March 1922 - July 24, 2008), born Kenneth William Gurney de Courcy Tyler, contributed to almost every magical magazine and was a prolific author.

Biography

A former president of the I.B.M. British Ring 25, he was editor of Magigram for over twenty years and published his own monthly magazine called Coffee-Break Chronicle.

Books

• Genial improbabilities (1949)
• Automentalism (1953)
• Pentertain (1972)
• Routined Acts by Ken de Courcy, Tony Griffith, Ian Adair, and Edwin (1972)
• At the Drop of a Match (1972)
• 33 Tricks with the P-A-T-E-O Force (1980)
• Danson's Diary Trick (1983)
• Four Aces Intro (1983)
• Production For Magicians (with Harold Long) (1983)