William Plomer

William Charles Franklyn Plomer (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (1903 - 1973) was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom. Plomer was Ian Fleming's editor on several of his James Bond novels of the 1950s and 60s.

Bibliography

• 1925. Turbott Wolfe
• 1927. Notes for poems.
• 1927. I Speak of Africa.
• 1928. The Family tree.
• 1929. Paper Houses
• 1931. Sado.
• 1932. The Case is altered.
• 1932. The Fivefold screen.
• 1933. The Child of Queen Victoria.
• 1933. Cecil Rhodes.
• 1934. The Invaders.
• 1936. Visiting the caves.
• 1936. Ali the Lion
• 1938. Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert (1870-1879)
• 1940. Selected poems.
• 1942. In a Bombed House.
• 1943. Double lives.
• 1945. The Dorking Thigh, and other satires.
• 1949. Four Countries.
• 1952. Museum pieces.
• 1955. A Shot in the park.
• 1955. Borderline Ballards
• 1957. Paper Homes
• 1958. At Home
• 1960. A Choice of Ballads
• 1966. Taste and Remember.
• 1975. The Autobiography of William Plomer.
• 1978. Electric Delights (ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis)