Who is Cyril Vernon Connolly from Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War and what is their importance? Wartime:_Understanding_and_Behavior_in_the_Second_World_War English & Literature Cyril Vernon Connolly | Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

English intellectual, literary critic, and writer, Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), lived in South Africa during most of his childhood. He knew George Orwell during school and received a good education, leaving South Africa to attend Eton on scholarship. He later went to Oxford, where his reputation as a writer flourished.

The author believes that Connolly is the most-influential literary personage of the wartime years in the United Kingdom. Much of this influence was specifically felt through his leadership of Horizon, a literary magazine he founded in 1940.