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-	'''Dominic Bevan Wyndham-Lewis''' [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] (9 March, 1891–21 November 21, 1969) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[writer]] best known for his [[Humour|humorous]] contributions to newspapers and for [[Biography|biographies]]. His family were originally from [[Wales]], but he was born in [[Liverpool]] and brought up in [[Cardiff]]. He served in the Welch Regiment during [[World War I]], and afterwards joined the ''[[Daily Express]]'' where he was briefly the newspapers Literary Editor.	+
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-	In 1919 he was put in charge of the paper's humorous 'By the Way' column and adopted the [[pen name]] '''[[Beachcomber (Pen name)|Beachcomber]]'''. However he was not happy confining his contribution to humour, and gave up the column to the better-known [[J. B. Morton]]. Morton acknowledged Wyndham-Lewis' contribution by dedicating his first anthology of columns to him. Wyndham-Lewis lived in [[Paris]] from the mid 1920s while doing historical research (although he contributed a column called 'At the Sign of the Blue Moon' to the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' which his followers regard as his most outstanding body of humorous work).	+
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-	In 1928 Wyndham-Lewis wrote a biography of [[François Villon]], a roguish [[poet]] from the 15th century, which seemed designed to be an entertaining read. Later biographies of [[France|French]] Kings [[Louis XI of France|Louis XI]] and [[Charles V of France|Charles V]] appeared tinged with Wyndham-Lewis' admitted [[Francophilia]], although it was generally accepted that Wyndham-Lewis wrote with a verve rarely found in biographies of this sort of subject. However, perhaps his best-remembered work is as an editor, not as a writer: ''The Stuffed Owl'' which he co-edited with [[Charles Lee (author)|Charles Lee]]. This anthology of 'bad verse' is justly famous as being one of the funniest of all poetry collections, featuring [[William Wordsworth]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and many others at considerably less than their best.	+
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-	Wyndham-Lewis had converted to the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] faith in 1921. Later in the 1930s after returning to Britain, Wyndham-Lewis turned to humorous anthologies, and in 1954 he collaborated with [[Ronald Searle]] on ''The Terror of [[St Trinian's School|St Trinian's]]'' (under the pen-name 'Timothy Shy'). Later work also included biographies of [[James Boswell|Boswell]], [[Pierre de Ronsard|Ronsard]], [[Molière]], [[Francisco Goya]], and [[Miguel de Cervantes]]. He co-wrote, with [[Charles Bennett (screenwriter)|Charles Bennett]], the screenplay for the first version of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' ([[1934 in film|1934]]).	+
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-	He also published as 'Mustard and Cress' in the ''[[Sunday Referee]]'' till 1935; after another stint at the Daily Mail, he wrote also for the ''[[Bystander]]'' and finally a decade-long column as Timothy Shy for the ''[[News Chronicle]]''.	+
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-	He was no relation to (though he was often enough confused with) his contemporary, the Canadian-born painter and author [[Wyndham Lewis]].	+
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-	==Published works==	+
-	* ''On straw, and other conceits'' (1927)	+
-	* ''[[François Villon]]: a documented survey'' (Davies, London, 1928)	+
-	* ''A Christmas book : an anthology for moderns'' (with G. C. Heseltine) (Dent, [[New York]], 1928)	+
-	* ''The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse'' (with Charles Lee) (Dent, London, 1930: enlarged 1948)	+
-	* ''King Spider: some aspects of Louis XI of France and his companions'' (Heinemann, London, 1930)	+
-	* ''Emperor of the West : a study of Charles the Fifth'' (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1932)	+
-	* ''I couldn't help laughing!: an anthology of war-time humour'' (Lindsay Drummond, London, 1942)	+
-	* ''Ronsard'' (Sheed and Ward, London, 1944)	+
-	* ''The hooded hawk: or, The case of Mr. Boswell'' (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1946)	+
-	* ''Four favourites'' (Evans, London, 1948)	+
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