| AdminHistory | Arnold Enoch Bennett [1867-1931] was a writer and journalist. He left school at the age of sixteen to work in his father's offices, whilst contributing articles to the Staffordshire Sentinel and moved to London to clerk at a solicitor's firm in 1889. He published short story 'A Letter Home' in 1895, and his novel, 'A Man of the North' in 1898. He edited the weekly journal Woman from 1893 to 1900, met HG Wells and JB Pinker in 1901, and left London for Paris in 1902. There he published works such as 'The Truth about an Author', 'The Old Wives Tale', and the Clayhanger trilogy. He published 'These United States' after a visit to America in 1911, and returned to England in 1912. During the First World War, Bennett was appointed Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. After the war, he continued to publish novels and plays including 'Riceyman Steps', for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1923. |