caption death_date death_place pseudonym birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
hector -rrb- hugh munro by e. o. hoppé -lrb- 1913 13 november 1916 beaumont-hamel , france saki akyab , british burma british 18 december 1870 hector hoppe , 1913.jpg hugh munro aka saki , by e o saki
 hector hugh munro author , playwright
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hector hugh munro -lrb- 18 december 1870 -- 14 november 1916 -rrb- , better known by the pen name saki , and also frequently as h. h. munro , was a british writer whose witty , mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize edwardian society and culture .
he is considered a master of the short story , and often compared to o. henry and dorothy parker .
influenced by oscar wilde , lewis carroll and rudyard kipling , he himself influenced a. a. milne , noël coward and p. g. wodehouse .
besides his short stories -lrb- which were first published in newspapers , as was customary at the time , and then collected into several volumes -rrb- , he wrote a full-length play , `` the watched pot '' , in collaboration with charles maude ; two one-act plays ; a historical study , `` the rise of the russian empire '' , the only book published under his own name ; a short novel , `` the unbearable bassington '' ; the episodic `` the westminster alice '' -lrb- a parliamentary parody of `` alice in wonderland '' -rrb- ; and `` when william came '' , subtitled `` a story of london under the hohenzollerns '' , a fantasy about a future german invasion and occupation of britain .
