died of cancer January 19, 1999. Elegant married author and editor Ursula Rosemary Righter (née Douglas) on May 10, 2003, in Italy. His children are Victoria Ann, a gynecological and pharmacological physician, and Simon David Brady, journalist and novelist. Bibliography Nonfiction The Dragon's Seed, St. Martin's (1959) The Center of the World, Doubleday (1964) (revised edition by Funk in 1968) Mao's Great Revolution, World Publishing (1971) China's Red Masters: Political Biographies of the Chinese Communist Leaders, Greenwood Press (1971) (First reprint) Mao vs. Chiang: The Battle for China, Grosset & Dunlap (1972) The Great Cities: Hong Kong, Time-Life (1977) Pacific Destiny: Inside Asia Today, Crown (1990) Fiction A Kind of Treason, Holt (1966) The Seeking, Funk (1969) Dynasty, McGraw (1976) Manchu, McGraw (1979) Mandarin, Simon & Schuster (1983) White Sun, Red Star, Hamish Hamilton (1986) (published as From a Far Land by Random House in 1987) Bianca, Sinclair-Stevenson (1992) (St Martin's also published it in 1995) The Everlasting Sorrow, Reed International (1994) Last Year in Hong Kong: A Love Story, Morrow (1997) The Big Brown Bears, Hale (1998) Cry Peace, Hale (2005) Sources "Robert (Sampson) Elegant," Contemporary Authors Online, entry updated 4 April 2001. Notes 1928 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American male writers American male novelists American reporters and correspondents American war correspondents Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Quadrant (magazine) people University of Pennsylvania alumni Yale University alumni 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers American emigrants to the United Kingdom