Robert Hichens (Robert Smythe Hichens, 14 November 1864 - 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays.
Other early fiction includes The Folly of Eustace (1896), a collection of stories including some supernatural
Flames (1897), a story resembling Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Londoners (1898), a satire about decadent London..
Hichens\'s first big success was An Imaginative Man (1895); set in the city of Cairo, Egypt, a place which fascinated Hichens, it is a study of insanity, in which the hero has a number of sexual adventures and then smashes his head against the Great Sphinx.
He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties".
Robert Hichens (Robert Smythe Hichens, 14 November 1864 - 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays
