Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was a prolific English novelist, whose literary career flourished in the early to mid-20th century. Born on March 13, 1884, in New Zealand, to English parents, Walpole was raised in a clerical family which soon relocated back to England. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and later at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His early works, such as 'The Wooden Horse' and '...