Stephen Potter (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Stephen Meredith Potter (1 February 1900 - 2 December 1969) was a British author best known for his mocking self-help books, and film and television derivatives from them. After leaving school in the last months of World War I he was commissioned as a junior officer in the British army, but by the time he had completed his training the war was over and he was demobilised. He then studied English at Oxford, and after some false starts he spent his early working life as an academic, lecturing in English literature at Birkbeck College in the University of London, where he published several works on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Finding his income inadequate, he left the university and took up a post producing and writing for the BBC. He remained with the BBC until after World War II, when he became a freelance writer, and remained so for the rest of his life.