Geoffrey Dennis


Geoffrey Pomeroy Dennis was an English diplomat and writer who won the Hawthornden Prize in 1930 for The End of the World. His Bloody Mary's is an autobiographical account of a young schoolboy in an English public school around the turn of the century.
Dennis served on the staff of the League of Nations in Geneva.
In 1937 he was sued for libel by Winston Churchill for insulting the future wife of Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson.

Works

Mary Lee, 1922Harvest in Poland, 1925, revised edition 1931Declaration of Love, 1927The End of the World, 1930Sale by Auction, 1932Bloody Mary's, 1934The Devil and X Y Z, 1937 Coronation Commentary, 1937Till Seven, 1957