L.H. Myers

L.H. Myers (born 1881, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died April 8, 1944, Marlow, Buckinghamshire) was an English philosophical novelist whose most compelling works explore spiritual turmoil and despair. Myers studied at Eton College, continued his education in Germany, and then briefly attended the University of Cambridge. In 1901, when his father died, he turned his attention exclusively to writing, although he also traveled widely, living for some time in Colorado. Myers’s first novel, The Orissers (1922), marked...