John Alfred Atkins (26 May 1916 – 31 March 2009) was a British writer, playwright, poet and novelist.
[1] Subsequently, he worked for Mass Observation and later as Assistant and Literary Editor of the left-wing newspaper Tribune, before his call up for war service arrived in 1943.
He taught in different parts of the world, including Sudan and Poland, and his erudition and breadth of knowledge was immense.
He was the author of many literary bibliographies (including Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, J.
B. Priestley, Graham Greene, Arthur Koestler and Ernest Hemingway), and of The British Spy Novel, an analysis of the genre, and the multi-volume Sex in Literature series.