Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur 1863-1944
English writer

Born in Bodmin, Cornwall, he was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he became a lecturer in classics (1886-87). After some years of literary work in London and in Cornwall, where he lived from 1891, he became Professor of English Literature at Cambridge (1912). He edited the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) and other anthologies, and published volumes of essays, criticism, poems and parodies, among them From a Cornish Window (1906), On the Art of Writing (1916), Studies in Literature and On the Art of Reading (1920). He is also remembered for a series of humorous novels set in a Cornish background, written under the pseudonym 'Q'.

Bibliography: B Willey, The Q Tradition (1946)