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Geoffrey Dennis

1892–1963

Best remembered as an English diplomat-novelist with a sharp, reflective style, he won the Hawthornden Prize for The End of the World in 1930. His work ranges from literary fiction to fantasy-tinged writing, often shaped by the anxieties and upheavals of early 20th-century Europe.

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Mary Lee

Mary Lee

by Geoffrey Dennis

About the author

Geoffrey Pomeroy Dennis was born on January 20, 1892, and died on May 15, 1963. He was an English writer and also worked as a diplomat, including service on the staff of the League of Nations in Geneva.

He is best known for The End of the World, which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1930. Another well-known book, Bloody Mary's (1934), draws on schoolboy life and has been described as autobiographical.

Dennis also wrote Harvest in Poland and other novels, and later readers have noted the way his fiction blends literary polish with darker, unsettled visions of modern life. Although he is not widely known today, his work still attracts interest from readers of distinctive interwar fiction.