Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett .

2013年3月28日 · Sir Hugh Walpole was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the first half of the 20th Century - but his reputation was soon ruined.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, a 20th-century English novelist, had a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs.

Sir Hugh Walpole (born March 13, 1884, Auckland, N.Z.—died June 1, 1941, near Keswick, Cumberland, Eng.) was a British novelist, critic, and dramatist, a natural storyteller with a fine flow of words and romantic invention.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (March 13, 1884 – June 1, 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett.

Hugh Walpole was born in 1884 in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of Somerset Walpole, Canon of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland, and later Bishop of Edinburgh. The family left New Zealand in 1889. He was educated in Truro, Marlow, Canterbury, Durham and Cambridge.

Hugh Walpole has 333 books on Goodreads with 28950 ratings. Hugh Walpole’s most popular book is Rogue Herries.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America.

The Hugh Walpole Society was formally launched on 1 January 2020. Its goal is to bring the work of this long-neglected author, who enjoyed enormous popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, and whose books once sold thousands of copies, back into the limelight, and hopefully to get more people reading and enjoying his stories once more.

The Society publishes two issues of The Hugh Walpole Review (ISSN 2633-8831) a year (Spring and Autumn). The Hugh Walpole Review is intended to function as a combination of an academic journal and a newsletter.