I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.

Tom Lehrer, 1928 –
Saki biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Saki

Author Name:

Saki

Born As:

Hector Hugh Munro

Other Names:

Saki

Born:

18 Dec 1870

Died:

14 Nov 1916




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Selected Works:

Books:

Dogged - short story, appeared as written by H. H. M. in St. Paul's - 1899
The Rise of the Russian Empire - history - 1900
The Woman Who Never Should - political sketch, in Westminster Gazette - 1902
The Not So Stories - political sketches, in Westminster Annual - 1902
The Westminster Alice - political sketches, with F. Carruthers Gould - 1902
Reginald - short stories - 1904
Reginald in Russia - short stories - 1910
The Chronicles of Clovis - short stories - 1911
The Unbearable Bassington - novel - 1912
1 When William Came - novel - 1913
Beasts and Super-Beasts - short stories - 1914
The East Wing - short story, in Lucas's Annual / Methuen's Annual - 1914

Posthumous publications:

The Toys of Peace - short stories - 1919
The Square Egg and Other Sketches - short stories - 1924
The Watched Pot - play, with Charles Maude - 1924
The Works of Saki - 8 vols. - 1926-1927
The Complete Short Stories of Saki - 1930
The Complete Novels and Plays of Saki - includes The Westminster Alice - 1933
The Miracle-Merchant - in One-Act Plays for Stage and Study 8 - 1934
The Best of Saki - ed. by Graham Greene - 1950
The Bodley Head Saki - 1963
Saki - by A.J. Langguth, includes six uncollected stories - 1981
The Complete Saki - 1976
Short Stories - ed. by John Letts - 1976
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope, and Other Stories - 1995
A Shot in the Dark - a compilation of 15 uncollected stories - 2006.

Theatre:

The Playboy of the Week-End World - 1977 - by Emlyn Williams, adapts 16 of Saki's stories.
                          
Mother Mary Frances Mercer
Father Charles Augustus Munro                          
                          
The name Saki is often thought to be a reference to the cupbearer in the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, a poem mentioned disparagingly by the eponymous character in "Reginald on Christmas Presents" and alluded to in a few other stories. It may, however, be a reference to the South American primate of the same name, "a small, long-tailed monkey from the Western Hemisphere" that is a central character in "The Remoulding of Groby Lington" and that, like Munro himself, hid a vicious streak beneath a gentle exterior.

Born Burma, now called Sittwe, Myanmar.