Leo Myers

[3] His trilogy/tetralogy The Root and the Flower, set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the award of the 1935 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

[clarification needed] He committed suicide on 7 April 1944 by taking an overdose of Veronal.

[2][5][6] He was on the edge of the Bloomsbury group and knew L. P. Hartley,[7] Aelfrida Tillyard and Max Plowman.

[8] Other friends were David Lindsay,[9] Frank Dobson,[10] and Charles le Gai Eaton.

[11] By an anonymous loan he helped George Orwell travel to Morocco in 1938, to convalesce from tuberculosis.

with his mother
Elsie Palmer, painted by John Singer Sargent