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Ward Muir
1878–1927
A lively early-20th-century man of letters, he wrote with firsthand feeling about wartime hospital life and also ranged across journalism, photography, and fiction.
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About the author
Ward Muir, born Wardrop Openshaw Muir in Liverpool on June 22, 1878, was a British journalist, editor, photographer, and author. He is best remembered for bringing a sharp eye and humane touch to his writing, drawing on real experience as well as a broad literary career.
His best-known book is Observations of an Orderly, a vivid account shaped by his service in an English war hospital during the First World War. Beyond that, he wrote novels and other nonfiction, and reference sources also note his work in photography and editing, showing how wide-ranging his interests were.
Muir died on June 9, 1927. Although he is not widely read today, his work still stands out for its immediacy and its glimpse into British cultural and wartime life in the early 1900s.