William John Metcalfe (6 October 1891 – 31 July 1965) was an English teacher, short story writer and novelist from Norfolk, who twice emigrated to the United States.
After the war, Metcalfe taught for five years at Highgate Junior School in London, and began writing.
[1] Metcalfe emigrated to the United States in 1928, where he wrote Arm's Length while serving as a barge captain on the East River.
[2] After service in World War II in the British Royal Air Force, Metcalfe taught in schools in Dorset and Hampstead before returning to the United States, where he was a teacher in Connecticut and New York.
T. E. D. Klein described him as a "writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times".