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Helen de Guerry Simpson

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Born: November 30 1897

Died: 1313 10 19401940

NOT Helen Simpson short story writer, born 1959.

Helen Simpson was an Australian-born writer, who lived in England from the age of 16. She studied music at Oxford, before becoming a novelist, a writer of historical biography, a radio broadcaster and a politician.

She joined the 1931 Detection Club, and wrote a chapter for Ask a Policeman 1933.

Works:

Novels:

Acquittal
The Baseless Fabric
Cups, Wands and Swords
Mumbudget
The Desolate House
Enter Sir John -filmed as Murder! by Alfred Hitchcock
Printer's Devil
Vantage Striker
Boomerang , winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Re-enter Sir John
The Woman on the Beast
The Spanish Marriage
Henry VIII
Saraband for Dead Lovers
The Female Felon
Under Capricorn
A Woman Among Wild Men
Maid No More

Plays:
Masks
A Man of His Time
The Women's Comedy
Pan in Pimlico

Poetry:
Philosophies in Little

Other:
The Happy Housewife

Translation:
A selection from Louis-Sebastian Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris under the title 'The Waiting City' .