About
Man of letters who became the editor of The Observer and wrote over 75 books. He chaired the British Drama League from 1954 to 1962.
Before Fame
He worked as a civil servant in the Home Office before quitting and becoming a freelance writer.
Trivia
He criticized Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and other modernist poets, calling them 'Half-baked intellectuals [who] worship baby talk and even persuade other people to pay for it...'
Family Life
He married Irene Gladys Hentschel and had no known children.
Associated With
In 1923, he published a work entitled H. G. Wells.
