Edward Shanks

Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (1892 ? 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction.

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1892 - 1953 - War poet - World War I - Science fiction

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He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylor's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in World War I with the British Army in France, but was invalided out in 1915, and did administrative work.

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London - Merchant Taylor's School - Trinity College, Cambridge - British Army

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He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He then wrote for the Evening Standard, to 1935.

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