Raymond Mortimer

Charles Raymond Mortimer Bell (25 April 1895 – 9 January 1980), who wrote under the name Raymond Mortimer, was a British writer, known mostly as a critic and literary editor.

He was born in Knightsbridge, London, and brought up in Redhill, Surrey. He was educated at Malvern College, and Balliol College, Oxford, which he entered in 1913 to read history. His studies were interrupted by service in a hospital in France from 1915; and then work in the Foreign Office. He did not complete his degree.

In the 1920s he was in Paris, writing fiction. He later became literary editor of the New Statesman, worked at the BBC and in liaison with the Free French in World War II, and subsequently as a reviewer for the Sunday Times. He was awarded the CBE in the 1955 Queens Birthday Honours.

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