death_date birth_date genre article_title name occupation
16 december 1979 1891 light verse , constrained writing j. a. lindon
 j. a. lindon writer , poet
j. a. lindon

james albert lindon -lrb- 1891 -- 16 december 1979 -rrb- was an english puzzle enthusiast and poet specializing in light verse , constrained writing , and children 's poetry .
lindon was based in addlestone and weybridge .
his poems often won weekly newspaper competitions , but seldom appeared in anthologies .
among his anthologized works include numerous parodies , including spoofs of dylan thomas , e. e. cummings , t. e. brown , lewis carroll , rudyard kipling , and ernest l. thayer .
his palindromic poems appeared occasionally in '' '' , and several were collected in howard w. bergerson 's `` palindromes and anagrams '' .
lindon is also noted as being the world 's first writer of vocabularyclept poetry , in which poems are constructed by rearranging the words of an existing poem .
author martin gardner often spoke highly of lindon 's poetry , referring to him as the greatest english writer of comic verse .
his skill at wordplay was similarly lauded , with gardner , bergerson , dmitri borgmann , and others proclaiming him to be among the world 's finest palindromists .
in addition to being a poet , lindon was an accomplished writer and solver of puzzles , especially those in recreational mathematics .
he was responsible for most of the pioneering work on antimagic squares .
