E. S. Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ernest Sackville Turner 17 November 1909 Liverpool, England |
| Died | 6 July 2006 (aged 96) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, journalist |
| Spouses | Helen Martin
(m. 1937; died 1968)Roberta Hewitt (m. 1971) |
| Children | 2 |
Ernest Sackville Turner OBE (17 November 1909 – 6 July 2006) was an English freelance journalist and writer who wrote 20 published books, including Boys Will Be Boys (Michael Joseph, 1948), The Phoney War on the Home Front (St. Martin's Press, 1961), and What The Butler Saw (Penguin, 1962), and contributing to the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, and regularly to the English satirical weekly magazine Punch (the latter for more than 50 years).