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Hector Hugh Munro, also known as H.H. Munro and best known by his pen name Saki, was a Scottish writer of plays, short stories, and novels. His work is characterized by its use of wit and satire targeted at Edwardian-era English society and convention.
Born in Akyab, Burma, Munro lived with his parents until his mother died. Munro’s father, an officer in Burma's colonial police force, sent Saki and his siblings to live with their grandmother and aunts in England. Munro did not enjoy his stay with his extended family, who were strict and overbearing, and his works contain frequent references to aunt characters often cast as antagonists.
Scholars have complained about the dearth of biographical information about Munro. Many attribute this lack to the fact that Munro’s sister, Ethel, destroyed all of his papers in 1955 so that nobody else could add to the biography she was already writing abut her brother. Some speculate that Ethel also wanted to keep hidden facts that would support rumors that her brother was g
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H.H. Munro (SAKI)
Hector Hugh Munro
Pen Name: Saki
Born: 18 December 1870
Died: 13 November 1916
Hector Hugh Munro (Dec 18, 1870 - Nov 14, 1916) was a witty British author who published under the pen name SAKI or H.H. Munro. The inspiration for the pen name "Saki" is unknown, it may be based upon a character in a poem or on a South American monkey. Given Munro's intellect, wit, and mischevious nature it's possible it was based on both simultaneously. As a writer, Munro (Saki) was a master of the short story form and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. E.F. Benson shares his sardonic style.
Munro was born in Akyab, Burma (now known as Myanmar) in 1870. In 1872 while she was on a trip to England, his mother Mary was charged by a cow. She suffered a miscarriage, never recovered, and died in 1872 when Munro was only two years old. After her death, the Munro children were sent from Burma back to England where they lived with their grandmother and aunts in a strict puritanical household. In his early career, Munro became a police officer in India and was posted
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Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) was born in Akyab, Burma on 18 December 1870, the son of an officer in the Burma police. He had an enjoyable childhood until he and his sister and brother were sent to stay with two maiden aunts in Devon. After being educated at school in Exmouth and at Bedford Grammar School, he returned to Asia in his early twenties as an officer in the Colonial Burmese Military Police, but his health failed and he returned to England after only one year.
His first book, The Rise of the Russian Empire (1899) was the only one written in a serious vein. From then on, he concentrated on witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories which satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. He was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, and in his turn, influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. Saki, his adopted name, may be a reference to the cupbearer in the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, a poem mentioned disparagingly by the eponymous char
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