Publisher's Synopsis
Baring (1874-1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also a travel writer and war correspondent. During WWI he served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force and was appointed an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours. He came from a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, later travelling widely, particularly in Russia, and reported as an eye-witness of the Russo-Japanese War for the London Morning Post. After WWI he enjoyed a period of success as a dramatist and began to write novels, becoming widely known socially in literary circles. He was staunch in his anti-intellectualism in respect of the arts and was an inveterate practical joker. Previously an agnostic, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1909. This autobiographical work was first published in 1922.
