Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) was the author of over fifty books, including Sorrell and Son (Cassell, 1925) and The House of Adventure (A.L. Burt, 1922), and was one of the best-selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s. His short stories appeared in Adventure, Cassell’s ,the Saturday Evening Post, The Story-Teller, and The Strand. Born in Southend-on-Sea in England, he studied medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge. During World War I, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps.