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British poet and novelist Gilbert Frankau was born in London, England, in 1884. His family was Jewish, but he converted to Anglicism and was baptized at 13. After graduating from Eton College, he entered the family cigar business, eventually becoming Managing Director of the company.

In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, he joined the British army. Commissioned as an officer, he was eventually posted to a field artillery unit in France, and fought in such major battles as Ypres, Loos and the Somme. He was invalided out of the army in 1918, and returned home to find that the family cigar business did not survive the war. At that point he decided to become a writer, as he had some experience writing for various British newspapers while posted to France.

A staunch conservative, he harbored political ambitions and tried to get backing from the Conservative Party to run for the House of Commons, but his string of marriages and divorces--the party considered divorce "unacceptable"--nixed that possibility. His right-wing politics also worked against him with the general public--after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Frankau wrote an article for the notoriously right-wing "Daily Express" titled "As a Jew I am Not Against Hitler" did him no good with the public, and he later retracted it.

He died of lung caner in Hove, England, in 1952.

(1932) Novel: &quot;Christopher Strong&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0023891/?ref_=nmwrk">Christopher Strong (1933)</a>.

(1937) Book: &quot;Experiments in Crime and Other Stories&quot;.

(1932) Novel: &quot;The Lonely Man&quot;.

(1922) Novel: &quot;The Love Story of Aliette Brunton&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0015086/?ref_=nmwrk">The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1924)</a>.

(1928) Novel: &quot;Air Ministry&quot; (aka &quot;Winter of Our Discontent&quot;).

(1923) Collection: &quot;Men, Maid and Mustard: A Collection of Tales&quot;.

(1917) Novel: &quot;The Woman of the Horizon&quot;.

(1924) Novel: &quot;Gerald Cranston&#39;s Lady&quot;.

(1918) Novel: &quot;The Judgment of Valhalla&quot;.

(1921) Novel: &quot;Seeds of Enchantment&quot;.

(1917) Novel: &quot;The City of Fear&quot;.

(1929) Novel: &quot;Dance, Little Gentlemen&quot;.

(1926) Novel: &quot;Masterson, and My Sentimental Journey&quot;.

(1925) Novel: &quot;Life--and Erica&quot;.

(1935) Novel: &quot;Three Englishmen&quot;.

(1934) Novel: &quot;Secret Services&quot;.

(1938) Novel: &quot;That Fierce Light&quot;.

(1940) Novel: &quot;Self-Portrait: A Novel of His Own Life&quot;.

(1936) Novel: &quot;Farewell Romance&quot;.

(1930) Novel: &quot;Martin Make Believe&quot;.

(1938) Novel: &quot;Royal Regiment&quot;.

(1931) Novel: &quot;Concerning Peter Jackson and Others&quot;.

(1932) Novel: &quot;Wine, Women and Waiters&quot;.

(1937) Novel: &quot;Dangerous Years&quot;.

(1917) Novel: &quot;The Woman of the Horizon: A Romance of Nineteen-Thirteen&quot;.

(1901) Poetry book: &quot;Eton Echoes&quot;.

(1916) Poetry book: AA Song of the Guns in Flanders&quot;.

(1918) Poetry book: &quot;The Other Side, and Other Poems&quot;.

(1918) l Novel: &quot;The Judgement of Valhalla&quot;.

(1916) Novel: &quot;How Rifleman Brown Came To Valhalla&quot;.

(1906) Book: &quot;The XYZ of Bridge&quot;.

(1914) Book: &quot;Tid&#39;apa (What Does It Matter?)&quot;.

(1912) Book: &quot;Jack--One of Us: A Novel in Verse&quot; (aka &quot;One of Us&quot;).

(1918) Novelette: &quot;One of Them: A Novelette in Verse&quot;.

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