Stephen McKenna (novelist)
Stephen McKenna (February 27, 1888 – September 26, 1967) was an English novelist who wrote forty-seven novels, mostly focusing on English upper-class society, and six non-fiction titles. He published his first novel, The Reluctant Lover, in 1912. His best-known novel, Sonia: Between Two Worlds, was published in 1917. It was the tenth best-selling novel for 1918 in the United States, and also made into a British film of the same name in 1921.
McKenna's The Oldest God (1926) is a philosophical fantasy novel featuring the god Pan.[1]
He wrote Tex. A chapter in the life of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, a biography about Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, the Dutch journalist who translated books from many languages into English, a.o. Louis Couperus, whom McKenna befriended in 1921.
His uncle was Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer under H. H. Asquith, of whom he published a biography in 1948, Reginald McKenna, 1863-1943: A Memoir.
References
- ↑ Brian Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature. Scarecrow Press,Plymouth. 2005. ISBN 0-8108-6829-6 (p. 312)
External links
- Stephen McKenna Papers, University of Delaware
- Works by Stephen McKenna at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Stephen McKenna at Internet Archive
- Sonia: Between Two Worlds (1917) (full text via Google books)
- Stephen McKenna at the Internet Movie Database