Charles Morgan

Novelist and critic, CHARLES MORGAN entered the British Navy in 1907. In 1914 he went to the front with the Naval Brigades, and was captured and interned in Holland for four years. That interlude gave him the background for his novel The Fountain, which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1933. Mr. Morgan is an Honorary Doctor of St. Andrews, of Caen, and of Toulouse, and the only English novelist, except Kipling, to have been elected to the Institut de France.

Novelist and critic, CHARLES MORGAN entered the British Navy as a Cadet in 1907 and served in the Atlantic and in the China Sea from 1911 to 1913. He re-enlisted during the First If arid II ar. ivent to the front with the Sara/ Brigades, took part in the defense of Antwerp, and teas captured and interned in Holland for four years. That interlude gave him the background for his most famous novel, The Fountain, which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1933.