William Aubrey Cecil Darlington or W.A. Darlington (1890–1979), was a British writer and journalist who worked for many years as the drama critic of the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Life and career
Darlington was primarily a journalist, working as a drama critic for the New York Times and The Daily Telegraph.
Darlington also wrote novels, most successfully with his 1920 comic work Alf's Button which was adapted into several films. He wrote an autobiography, I Do What I Like.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John’s, Cambridge, before joining the army during the First World War.
Works
- Alf's Button (1920)
- Egbert (1925)
- Carpet Slippers (1931)
- I Do What I Like (MacDonald, 1947)
- The World of Gilbert and Sullivan (1950)
- Six Thousand and One Nights: Forty Years a Drama Critic (1960)
References
- "William Aubrey Darlington b. 20 Feb 1890 Taunton, Somerset, England d. 1979: MacFarlane Clan & Families Genealogy". www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- Low p.111
- "W.A. Darlington, Ex-Stage Critic For London's Daily Telegraph, 89". The New York Times. 26 May 1979. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
Further reading
- Low, Rachael The History of the British Film, 1918–1929 George Allen & Unwin, 1971
External links
- Works by William Aubrey Darlington at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Aubrey Darlington at the Internet Archive
- W. A. Darlington at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- W. A. Darlington at Library of Congress, with 22 library catalogue records
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