Arthur Quiller-Couch

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) was a Cornish novelist, anthologist and critic who wrote as Q. Born in Bodmin and educated at Oxford, he began with adventure novels such as Dead Man's Rock and The Splendid Spur and stories set in Fowey, the Cornish harbor town where he lived, which he called Troy. He edited The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), which shaped the taste of generations, and completed Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel St. Ives. In 1912 he became professor of English literature at Cambridge, where his lectures On the Art of Writing became a classic. He was knighted in 1910.