Geoffrey Dennis

Geoffrey Pomeroy Dennis (20 January 1892 – 15 May 1963)[1] was an English diplomat and writer who won the Hawthornden Prize in 1930 for The End of the World.[2][3] His Bloody Mary's (1934) is an autobiographical account of a young schoolboy in an English public school around the turn of the century.

Dennis served on the staff of the League of Nations in Geneva.

In 1937 he was sued for libel by Winston Churchill for insulting the future wife of Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson.[4]

Works
  • Mary Lee, 1922
  • Harvest in Poland, 1925, revised edition 1931
  • Declaration of Love, 1927
  • The End of the World, 1930
  • Sale by Auction (The Red Room in the U.S.), 1932
  • Bloody Mary's, 1934
  • The Devil and X Y Z, 1937 (as by Barum Browne, with Hilary Saint George Saunders)
  • Coronation Commentary, 1937
  • Till Seven, 1957

References
  1. "Dennis, Geoffrey" The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  2. Robert Crossley Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future 0815602812-1994 Page 194 2At forty-four he was three years too old, and it went instead to Geoffrey Dennis's End of the World — a more conventional book of forecasts that had often been reviewed alongside Stapledon's."
  3. C. S. Lewis On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature 0547543050 "Examples are Wells's Time Machine, Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, or Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End. It is here that ... gladly include in this sub-species a work which is not even narrative, Geoffrey Dennis's The End of the World (1930)."
  4. Henry Pelling, Winston Churchill p. 415


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