(1870-12-18)18 December 1870 Akyab, Burma, British India
Died
14 November 1916(1916-11-14) (aged 45) Beaumont-Hamel, France
Pen name
Saki
Occupation
Author, playwright
Nationality
British
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1914–1916
Rank
Lance Sergeant
Unit
22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
Battles/wars
First World War
Battle of the Somme
Battle of the Ancre †
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.[1]
Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.
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