S. Fowler Wright

Sydney Fowler Wright (6 January 1874 – 25 February 1965) was a British editor, poet, science fiction author, writer of screenplays, mystery fiction and works in other genres, as well as being an accountant and a conservative political activist. He also wrote as Sydney Fowler and Anthony Wingrave.

Background Wright was born in Holly Street, Smethwick (then in the Kings Norton registration district), England on 6 January 1874. Wright left school at eleven, and spent his adolescence studying literature when not working. From a young age, Wright deliberately adopted a healthy lifestyle; he did not smoke or eat meat, and rarely drank alcohol. Wright also took regular exercise by hiking or cycling in the countryside.

Writing career In 1917, Wright helped found the Empire Poetry League and edited the League's journal, Poetry. Wright used Poetry to publish his translations of Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio. The Island of Captain Sparrow (1928) was inspired by H. G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. Wright's novel features a race of satyr-like beast men persecuted by humans. The New Gods Lead includes several stories of note, including "The Rat", about a doctor who discovers an immortality serum, and "P.N. 40", which is set in a repressive future controlled by supporters of the eugenics movement. Lord's Right in Languedoc (1933) David (1934) Last Days of Pompeii (1948) (Redaction of Lord Lytton's novel by S.F.W.). Marguerite de Valois (1946) (Translation of Alexander Dumas père novel). The Siege of Malta, Part One: St Elmo (1942) The Siege of Malta, Part Two: St Angelo (1942) (Completion of Walter Scott's unfinished novel)

Mystery novels (as Sydney Fowler) The King against Anne Bickerton (1930, vts REX v Anne Bickerton and The Case of Anne Bickerton) By Saturday (1931) The Bell Street Murders (1931) Crime & co. (1931, vt The Hand-Print Mystery) Who Else But She? (1934, vts Cherchez la Femme, and Who But She?) Was Murder Done? (1936) The Attic Murder (1936) Post-Mortem Evidence (1936) Four Callers in Razor Street (1937) The Jordans Murder (1938) (Reprinted in abridged edition in 1941) The Murder in Bethnal Square (1938) The Wills of Jane Kanwhistle (1939) The Secret of the Screen (1940) The Hanging of Constance Hillier (1941) The Rissole Mystery (1941) A Bout with the Mildew Gang (1941) Second Bout with the Mildew Gang (1942) Dinner in New York (1943) The End of the Mildew Gang (1944) Too Much for Mr. Jellipot (1945) Who Murdered Reynard? (1947) With Cause enough? (1954)

Other novels Seven Thousand in Israel (1931) Red Ike (1931, vt. Under The Brutchstone, Redaction of J.M. Denwood's novel Cumberland). Ordeal of Barata (1939)

Short fiction "Automata: I" (1929) "Automata: II" (1929) "Automata: III" (1929) "P.N. 40" (1929) "The Rat" (1929) "Automata" (1929) "Brain" (1932) "Choice" (1932) "The Rule" (1932) "Proof" (1932) "Appeal" (1932) "This Night" (1932) "Justice" (1932) "Original Sin" (1946) "The Terror of William Stickers" (1946) "A Question of E.D.D." (1946) "The Congo Cat" (1946) "The Temperature of Gehenna Sue" (1946) "Carrots" (1946) "Burglar's Aid" (1946) "Who Else But She?" (1946) "Status" (1946) "The Witchfinder" (1946) "Obviously Suicide" (1951) "The Better Choice" (1955)

Collections Scenes from the Morte d'Arthur (1919) as Alan Seymour The New Gods Lead (1932) The Witchfinder (1946) The Throne of Saturn (1949) S. Fowler Wright's Short Stories (1996) .

Non-fiction Police and Public (1929) The Life of Sir Walter Scott – Part I (1932) The Life of Sir Walter Scott – Part II (1932) Should We Surrender Colonies? (1938)