PEOPLE WHO WRITE

Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 13

PEOPLE WHO WRITE

PEOPLE WHO WRITE. Captain Guy Payment, who has translated a book called Japan Must Fight Britain, has been Fleet Education Officer in the Mediterranean command since 1927. He was one of the first Naval officers to be made a Japanese interpreter. Mrs Glenda Spooner, author of a first novel called “Victoria Glencaim,” is a sister-in-law of Miss Winifred Spooner, the British air pilot. She is the daughter of Sir Frederick Graham.

Miss Elizabeth Jenkins has been awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for her novel, “Harriet,” published last year. The other books submitted to the French committee which chooses the winner were Mr Evelyn Waugh’s :*A Handful of Dust” and Miss Antonia White’s “Frost in May.”

J. S. Fletcher, the writer of thrillers and novels of Yorkshire life, left £6399. He died last January, aged seventy-two.

Douglas Jerrold, author of a provocative book called, simply “England,” served with the Royal Naval Division at Gallipoli during the War. He was wounded and mentioned in despatches. Later, he wrote the official history of the Division. From 1918 to 1920 he was in the Ministry of Food, and for a year was Director of Rationing and Distribution. Now he is editor of the English Review.

Samuel Rogers, the American author of “Dusk at the Grove,” is at present living in Paris. After war service as an ambulance driver, he was given a Fellowship at the Sorbonne, the University of Paris. He is engaged on a new novel.

Frank Kendon, published a new volume of poems in May. His title, “The Cherry Minder,” may mystify some people. Cherry-minder is the name given in Kent to the men who, aimed with an old gun, keep the birds off the cherry crops during the season. The poems in this collection have been written over a number of years, but are arranged chronologically. Those who remember Mr Kendon’s narrative poems, “Tristram” and “A Life and Death of Judas Iscariot,” will look forward to reading these shorter pieces.

Courtney Ryley Cooper, author of ‘Ten Thousand Public Enemies,” was bom at Kansas City, Missouri. During his forty-nine years of life he has been newsboy, glove salesman, actor, dancer in music-halls, reporter, rodeo organizer, and manager of a circus.

M. Paul Claudel, the poet, who is retiring from the position of French Ambassador in Brussels, recently bade a “literary farewell” to the Belgian Academy when he delivered an address on Verlaine.

Another distinguished French author, M. Henri Barbusse, who holds strong views on pacificism, has been forbidden to lecture in Geneva, as he is banned by a Swiss Federal expulsion order. But he has been permitted to enter Switzerland for twelve hours to visit the League of Nations. ,