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Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.
Hector Hugh Munro (), photographed by E. O. Hoppé"Tobermory" is a humorous short story by Hector Hugh Munro written under his pen-name, Saki.It was originally published in The Westminster Gazette in 1909, first collected, in a revised form, in The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and has frequently been reprinted in anthologies.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
The author's name appeared as both Saki and H. H. Munro. Munro originally wanted to call the book "Tobermory and Other Sketches", then changed his mind in favour of "Beasts and Super-Beasts", which was eventually used as the title of his next collection. The final choice seems to have been the publisher's, and did not meet with Munro's approval ...
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A large number of authors choose to use some form of initials in their name when it appears in their literary work. This includes some of the most famous authors of the 20th century – D. H. Lawrence, J. D. Salinger, T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, etc. – and also a host of lesser-known writers.
Hector Munro (surveyor) (1859–1930), Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), British writer known by the pen name Saki; Colonel Sir Hector Munro, 11th Baronet (1848–1935), 32nd Chief of Clan Munro; Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm (1922–2006), Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party politician; Hector Munro (cricketer) (1920–2014), English ...
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