Literary critic Edmund Wilson once referred to this author‘s prose style as ―a tissue of clichés‖. He pioneered the genre of the espionage novel with Ashenden,  and quasi-feminist themes can be found in a play on marital relations, The Constant Wife. More famously, he portrayed fellow writers Thomas
Literary critic Edmund Wilson once referred to this author‘s prose style as ―a tissue of clichés‖. He pioneered the genre of the espionage novel with Ashenden,  and quasi-feminist themes can be found in a play on marital relations, The Constant Wife. More famously, he portrayed fellow writers Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole as Edward Driffield and Alroy Kear in Cakes and Ale; and based another protagonist, Charles Strickland, on the painter Paul Gauguin in the novel The Moon and the Sixpence. FTP, who is this English novelist and playwright of Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge.
Literary critic Edmund Wilson once referred to this author‘s prose style as ―a tissue of clichés‖. He pioneered the genre of the espionage novel with Ashenden,  and quasi-feminist themes can be found in a play on marital relations, The Constant Wife.