author
Walter Lionel George
1882–1926
A sharp, socially minded novelist and journalist, Walter Lionel George wrote boldly about feminism, class, labour, and the pressures shaping modern life. His best-known novel, A Bed of Roses, brought him wide attention, while later works—including Children of the Morning—showed his range and restless imagination.
5 Audiobooks
A London Mosaic
by Walter Lionel George
The Intelligence of Woman
by Walter Lionel George
A Bed of Roses
by Walter Lionel George
Anatole France
by Walter Lionel George
A Novelist on Novels
by Walter Lionel George
About the author
Born in Paris to British parents, Walter Lionel George moved to London in 1905 and began working as a journalist. Although he did not learn English until early adulthood, he went on to write extensively in English, producing novels, short stories, essays, literary criticism, and political tracts.
His first novel, A Bed of Roses (1911), follows a woman driven into prostitution and established George as a writer unafraid to confront difficult social realities. His fiction often carried feminist, pacifist, and pro-labour themes, and he was sometimes described as a “novelist with a conscience.”
George served with the French army during the First World War and remained a prolific writer until his death in London on January 30, 1926. His works include The Second Blooming, Caliban, A Novelist on Novels, and Children of the Morning, a speculative novel later noted for its resemblance to themes in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.