G. W. Stonier
George Walter Stonier or G. W. Stonier (1903 – 1985) was an English critic, novelist and radio playwright, and a literary editor of the "New Statesman". He was an adapter of Gustave Flaubert's "Bouvard et Pécuchet", and his radio plays included "Ophelia", "The Shadow Across the Page", "The House Opposite" and "Chap in a Bowler Hat". He was a contributor to "The Observer", "The Daily Telegraph", literary journals and "Sight & Sound". He was also author of the well-regarded novella "Memoirs of a Ghost" and of six other books:"Shaving Through the Blitz", "Shadow Across the Page", "Gog  Magog", "My Dear Bunny", "Across London with the Unicorn", and "Pictures on the Pavement" illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. He was the first to translate Jules Renard's classic tale of an unloved child, "Poil de Carotte" into English. It was published (as "Carrots") in 1946 by the Grey Walls Press in an edition illustrated by Fred Uhlman.