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Walpole (HUGH SEYMOUR a British author)

HUGH SEYMOUR, a British author, born in 1884, son of the Bishop of Edinburgh. He finished his education at Cambridge bridge University, and almost immediately took up literature as his life vocation, publishing his first novel, "The Wooden Horse," at the age of twenty-five. After the outbreak of the World War he went to Russia as a member of the Red Cross, where he incidentally gathered the material for the novel which gained him his first wide popularity among intellectual readers, "The Secret City" (1919), the city indicated in the title being Petrograd. He has also written, "Maradick at Forty" (1910); "The Prelude to the Adventure" (1912); "The Dark Forest" (1916); and "Jeremy" (1919).