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Geoffrey Dennis
1892–1963
An English diplomat who turned a sharp, imaginative eye on the modern world, he is best remembered for The End of the World, winner of the 1930 Hawthornden Prize. His writing ranges from fantasy and social satire to memoir, often blending wit with a sense of unease about European civilization.
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Mary Lee
by Geoffrey Dennis
About the author
Born in 1892, Geoffrey Pomeroy Dennis was an English writer and diplomat. Reliable reference sources identify him as the author of The End of the World, which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1930, and note that he also wrote Bloody Mary's, an autobiographical account of school life.
Dennis's fiction and nonfiction show a wide range, from imaginative and speculative work to personal recollection. Reference material on his career also connects his writing to the shadow of the First World War, suggesting that his sense of cultural strain and decline was shaped in part by that experience.
He died in 1963. Though not widely known today, he stands out as a distinctive interwar British voice: observant, literary, and interested in the pressures history places on private life.