The Awakening: written by Warwick Deeping, and 50 similar items

George Warwick Deeping (28 May 1877 – 20 April 1950) was an English novelist and short story writer, whose b George Warwick Deeping (28 May 1877 – 20 April 1950) was an English novelist and short story writer, whose best-known novel was Sorrell and Son (1925). Prior to his career as a novelist, Deeping briefly practiced medicine, following in the footsteps of his father, Dr. George Davidson Deeping. Early in his medical career (1903) he published his first novel, Uther and Igraine, and with the success of this novel, he gave up medicine and became a full time author. His literary career was briefly interrupted 14 years later, when in the Great War (WWI), he volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps. In this endeavor, he served as a MO (Medical Officer) in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey as well as at the front in France. His experiences in "The Great War" became the basis for many of his best novels after he returned home. The volume of his literary work was immense. He published at least one, and sometimes two, full length novels each year as well as hundreds of short stories over his 50+ years of writing. Even at his death, he still had unpublished novels that were later published by his wife, Maude Deeping. est-known novel was Sorrell and Son (1925).