A.P. Herbert(1890-1971)
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English novelist and essayist Alan Patrick Herbert was born in London,
England, in 1890. An Oxford graduate, he served in the Royal Navy in
World War I and took part in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in
Turkey, which resulted in heavy casualties and a resounding defeat for
the Allied forces. He later fought in France, where he was so severely
wounded that he received a medical discharge. He was admitted to the
bar in 1918, and served for two years as a private secretary to a
member of the British Parliament. In 1924 he became a staff writer for
"Punch" magazine--to which he had been a contributing writer since
1910--and in 1935 he was elected to the British Parliament as an
Independent representing Oxford. His best-known novels are probably
"The House by the River" and "The Water Gipsies", both of which were
turned into successful films.