He was natural inside Auckland in New Zealand and educated in England at a KIng's School, Canterbury & at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He worked as a teacher prior to turning to writing to the full instance. His number 1 novel was A Wooden Horse (1909), by having Fortitude (1913) his 1st peachy profits. He worked for the Red Cross in Russia during World War I, experiences which fed his A Dark Outdoors (1916) & A Secret City (1919). A latter won a maiden James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

His better known act is the personal saga A Herries Chronicle, comprising Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931), A Fort (1932) & Vanessa (1933). Farthing Hall (1929) was produced together with J.B. Priestley.

Walpole's function was super popular, & brought him peachy fiscal benefits. He was the prolific worker world health organization embraced the kind of genres. These involved: short stories; school novels (Mr Perrin & Mr Traill, 1911 & a Jeremy trilogy) that delve deep into a psychological science of boyhood; gothic horror novels (Portrait of the Human using Red Hair, 1925 & A Killer & The Slain, 1942); biographies (of Joseph Conrad in 1916, James Branch Cabell in 1920 and Anthony Trollope in 1928); plays and the screenplay for the George Cukor-directed David Copperfield (1935).

He was knighted in 1937. He died when doing volunteer war act inside 1941.

Walpole was the key member of the exclusive homosexual clique around Thirties London, which involved Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, and Evelyn Waugh.

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