Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (11 June 1892 – 4 May 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer.
[1] He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury (1919–22) and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (1926).
The People of the Ruins (1920) was a science-fiction novel in which a man wakes after being put into suspended animation in 1924, to discover a devastated Britain 150 years in the future.
[1] The People of the Ruins has an anti-communist subtext (the future 1924 is devastated by Marxist revolutionaries).