Hugh Walpole

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Hugh Walpole Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (born 13 March 1884, Auckland, 1 January 1941, London) is an English novelist and literary critic.

He was born in New Zealand. He studied in England. He became a writer and worked as a teacher. In 1909 he published his first novel The Wooden Horse. Fortitude of 1913 was a great success. During the First World War he worked in Russia for the Red Cross. His impressions were recorded in The Dark Forest (1916) and The Secret City (1919). Walpole lived in Brackenburn Lodge. Here he wrote the most famous works, including The Herries Chronicles (Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931), The Fortress (1932) and Vanessa (1933)).

His books were very popular and financially successful. Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911) and Jeremy Trilogy, Gothic Horror (1925) and The Killer & The Slain (1942)) are the literary works of the writer. He also wrote biographies - Joseph Conrad (1916) by James Branch Cabell (1920) and Anthony Trollpe (1928). He also wrote plays. He wrote the screenplay for David Copperfield's (1935) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by George Cukor. He also played a role in it.

In 1937 he was awarded the title of nobleman.

Walpole belonged to the exclusive gay London coterie of the thirties. They also included Noel Coward and Ivor Novello. Authoritative control (person):

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