William Aubrey Cecil Darlington or W.A. Darlington (1890–1979), was a British writer and journalist who worked for many years as the

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of the ''

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'' newspaper.

Life and career

Darlington was primarily a journalist, working as a drama critic for the

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and

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. Darlington also wrote novels, most successfully with his 1920 comic work '' Alf's Button'' which was adapted into several films.Low p.111 He wrote an autobiography, ''I Do What I Like''. He was educated at

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and St John’s, Cambridge, before joining the army during the

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Works

* ''Alf's Button'' (1920) * ''Egbert'' (1925) * ''Carpet Slippers'' (1931) * ''I Do What I Like'' (MacDonald, 1947) * ''The World of Gilbert and Sullivan'' (1950) * ''Six Thousand and One Nights: Forty Years a Drama Critic'' (1960)

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* * * * 1890 births 1979 deaths British theatre critics 20th-century British novelists People from Taunton The Daily Telegraph people British male novelists Presidents of the Critics' Circle 20th-century English businesspeople Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge British Army soldiers British Army personnel of World War I Military personnel from Somerset {{UK-novelist-stub

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