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Dec 30, 1893 Died on 03 Jan 1958 (aged 64)

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About Gerald Bullett

  • Gerald William Bullett (30 December 1893 – 3 January 1958) was a British man of letters.
  • He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet.
  • He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature.
  • A few of his books were published as by Sebastian Fox Bullett was born in London and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.
  • During the Second World War he worked for the BBC in London, and after the war was a radio broadcaster.
  • Bullett also contributed to the Times Literary Supplement.
  • Politically, Bullett described himself as a "liberal socialist" and claimed to detest "prudery, Prohibition, blood sports, central heating, and literary tea parties".
  • Bullett was also an anti-fascist, describing fascism as "gangsterism on a national scale"; he publicly backed the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.One of his novels was Mr.
  • Godly Beside Himself (1924), a humorous fantasy story about a modern man who exchanges places with his doppelganger in fairyland.
  • Brian Stableford likens Bullet's novel to other works of post First World War British fantasy, such as Stella Benson's Living Alone (1919), and Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist (1926).Bullett was a great admirer of Walt Whitman, and wrote an essay on Whitman for the book Great Democrats by Alfred Barratt Brown.
  • Here he described Whitman as "a man full-blooded and brotherly, unselfconscious in his democracy and genuinely at ease with all kinds and classes".
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  • Bullett died in Chichester, West Sussex.

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