Peter Vansittart OBE, FRSL (27 August 1920 – 4 October 2008) was an English writer.
[citation needed] For many years he made money by letting rooms in a house in Hampstead which he bought for £200 in cash from an acquaintance in a pub in the 1940s.
After living in London for much of his life, Vansittart moved to Kersey, Suffolk to a house inherited from his mother until his death.
[4] In his works, Vansittart expressed his fascination with how time transforms historical facts into fantasy and myth.
He said, "I was long impressed by the woeful distinction between the historical Macbeth and Shakespeare's: by the swift transformation of E.M. Forster's very English Mrs. Moore into an Indian goddess.