William Gerhardie

William Alexander Gerhardie OBE FRSL (21 November 1895 – 15 July 1977)[1] was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright. His first novel, Futility (1922), drew on his experiences of fighting the Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia.

William Gerhardie by Norman Ivor Lancashire (1927–2004). Photograph by Stella Harpley