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Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers (6 September 1881 – 7 April 1944) was a British novelist. ==Life== He was born in Leckhampton House, Cambridge into a cultured family; his father was the writer Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) and his mother the photographer Eveleen Tennant (1856-1937).〔Cresswell (2004)〕 He was named after his godfather, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.〔 He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. His trilogy/tetralogy ''The Root and the Flower'', set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the award of the 1935 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He did not visit India, and his writings about it have been seen by some critics as reflecting his own intellectual milieu and its concerns. He was independently wealthy from his mid-20s, travelled and began to write. In 1908 he married the American Elsie Palmer (1873–1955), daughter of General William Palmer,〔 and a friend of John Singer Sargent, who painted her. He made many friends of different kinds, and late in life broke with most of them.〔Adrian Wright, ''The Past is a Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley'' (1996), p, 131.〕 In the 1930s he wrote in sympathy with Marxist thought, and became increasingly pessimistic in his outlook. He committed suicide on 7 April 1944 by taking an overdose of Veronal.〔〔Caroline Moorehead. (''Iris Origo: marchesa of Val d'Orcia'' ), Boston: David R. Godine, 2002 (1st ed. London: John Murray, 2000). ISBN 9781567921830. p. 256.〕 He was on the edge of the Bloomsbury group, and knew L. P. Hartley,〔Adrian Wright, ''The Past is a Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley'' (1996), p, 91.〕 Aelfrida Tillyard and Max Plowman. He kept up a lengthy correspondence with Olaf Stapledon.〔Robert Crossley, ''Olaf Stapledon; Speaking for the Future'' (1994), p. 194.〕 Other friends were David Lindsay,〔http://www.violetapple.org.uk/notes/lh_myers.php〕 Frank Dobson,〔Malcolm Easton, ''Frank Dobson's 'Cornucopia' (Hull University Art Collection)'', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 111, No. 795 (Jun., 1969), pp. 382-386.〕 and Charles le Gai Eaton.〔http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/june02_index.php?l=21〕 By an anonymous loan he helped George Orwell travel to Morocco in 1938, to convalesce from tuberculosis.〔Jeffrey Meyers, ''George Orwell: The Critical Heritage'' (1997), p. 16.〕 The designer EQ Nicholson was his daughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leo Myers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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