British novelist and playwright. Educated at Oxford University, he gave up legal studies to finish his first play, The Gentleman in Grey (1906). During World War I he directed the Aegean Intelligence Service in Syria; when he wrote about those experiences in Greek Memories (1932), he was prosecuted under Britain's Official Secrets Act.
He founded Gramophone magazine in 1923 and edited it until 1962. He served as rector of Glasgow University (1931–34) and as literary critic for the London Daily Mail; his more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies include 10 volumes of memoirs.
发表于2024-11-09
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Thinly autobiographical, it followed the low-life adventures of its hero, Michael Fane, in London and Oxford and it won warm praise from writers as different as Henry James and Scott Fitzgeraid.
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