biography
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Morgan, Charles (Langbridge)
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pseudonym Menander
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| lived:
| (1894–1958)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Bromley, S Greater London, UK. After serving in the navy, he went to Oxford University, where he published The Gunroom (1919) on his early experiences, and became a well-known personality. He joined the editorial staff of The Times in 1921, and was their principal drama critic (1926–39). Under his pseudonym he also wrote for The Times Literary Supplement critical essays called Reflections in a Mirror, which were later (1944–5) collected in two series. His novel Portrait in a Mirror (1929), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize; The Fountain (1932) won the Hawthornden Prize; and The Voyage (1940) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also wrote plays, such as The River Line (1949) and The Burning Glass (1953). |
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