Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole
(March 13, 1884 - June 1, 1941) U.K.
Writer
Son of the Edinbourg bishop, born in Auckland, New Zealand, he went to England when he was five, was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Emmanuel College, Cambridge and became a schoolmaster. In 1938 he was knighted.
Books:
- Mr. Perrin and Mr.Traill (1911)
- The Dark Forest (1916)
- The Secret City (1919)
- The Cathedral (1922)
- The Chrystal Box (1924)
- The Old Ladies (1924)
- Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925)
- Wintersmoon (1928)
- Hans Frost (1929)
- Lakeland Saga (in "Herries Chronicle",1930-33)
- Judith Paris (1931)
- Vanessa (1933)
- Captain Nicholas (1934)
- A Prayer for My Son (1936)
- John Cornelius (1937)
- The Bright Pavillions (1940)
- Blind man's house (1941)
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