* 14.6.1908, Lisbon, Portugal.

Pubis. incl: The Last Hero; Ana Paula; Anxiety; United States 1942; The Road to Sin; Triple Mirror; Imperfect Poems; Churchill -The Statesman & the Writer; The Captive Doe; Memoirs of a Banknote; Cela 27; The Long Arm of Justice; Not Too Exemplary. Tales Contbr. to: Ocidente, Lisbon; Mod. Age, Chgo.; Figaro Litteraire, Paris; etc. Memberships. incl: Portuguese Soc. of Writers (Chmn., 1963-65); PEN; Hon. Mbr., Soc. des Gens de Lettres de France. Hons. incl: Cmdr. of Infante D. Henrique, Portugal; Cmdr. of Victorian Order. GB; Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, France; var. lit. prizes