W. F. Morris

Walter Frederick Morris (31 May 18921975) was an English novelist, best known for his mystery novel, Bretherton (1929), set in World War I. Critic A.C. Ward praised this as "an adventure-mystery war-novel with an admirably ingenious and leak-proof plot. This book combines a brilliant exercise of creative imagination with a remarkable ability to reproduce, vividly, first-hand experiences, and there is one brief battle-scene…which is memorable.” (The Nineteen-Twenties, Literature and Ideas in the Post-War Decade, 1930, pp 163–4). Spy novelist Eric Ambler named the book as one of his top five spy stories (in the Afterword to the 1952 edition of his Epitaph for a Spy).[1][2]

Life

Morris was born in Norwich. He served with the 8th Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment during World War I, reaching the rank of Major by the age of 27, and was awarded the Military Cross.[3]

Works

References

  1. Mark Valentine - "Collecting the First World War Novels of Major Morris", Book and Magazine Collector, June 2010
  2. Michael Dirda, Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books, Pegasus Books, 2015. Accessed 19 August 2015
  3. London Gazette edition 31711 p16118
  4. The Tablet, 24 October 1931, p 10. Accessed 19 August 2015


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