Guy McCrone (1898-1977) w as born in Birkenhead. He was educated at GlasgowAcademy, going on to read modern languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge,before studying singing in Vienna. Glasgow provided the inspiration for many ofMcCrone's novels, including Antimacassar City, The Philistines and The Puritans,which were published as Wax Fruit in 1947. McCrone retired to the Lake District in1968, where he died at Windermere in May 1977.