Martin Armstrong

Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong was an English writer and poet, born in Newcastle upon Tyne on October 2, 1882. He was educated at Charterhouse and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and became known first for poetry before building a wider career in prose fiction.

During the First World War, he served in France, beginning as a private in the Artists' Rifles and later receiving a commission in the Middlesex Regiment. He was associated with the Georgian Poetry movement, and several sources note that he increasingly turned toward fiction in the 1920s, eventually writing a substantial body of novels and stories.

In 1929 he married the Canadian writer Jessie MacDonald, becoming stepfather to the future novelist Joan Aiken. Armstrong died on February 24, 1974, in Sussex. No suitable verified portrait image was confidently available from the pages checked, so a profile image is not included here.