biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1981)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Brighton, East Sussex, SE England, UK, the son of Edward and Constance Garnett. He studied botany at the Royal College of Science, and after World War 1 started a bookshop in Soho, and became associated with the Bloomsbury Group, to some of whose members he was related. His first book, Lady into Fox (1922), was highly acclaimed, and followed by A Man in the Zoo (1924), The Grasshoppers Come (1931), and Aspects of Love (1955), which was adapted as a musical after his death by Andrew Lloyd Webber. |
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