Christopher Wentworth Dilke (15 December 1913 – 9 November 1987) was an English writer.
At the end of the same year he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as head of English by Radio and Television.
[3] In his time at the BBC he also was a presenter for the German Service[4] Dilke wrote for radio and film, and was the author of a number of books, including The Bridgehead, A Name for Myself, The Rotten Apple[1] and Dr. Moberly's Mint-Mark, a study of Winchester College.
The dustwrapper to A Name for Myself notes that his previous novels had been highly praised by Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen.
Lionel Hale, in The Observer, referencing the film of Greene's The Third Man, commented: "Mr Dilke has...omitted zither music: but all the other ingredients of the intelligent thriller are there.