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Michael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian; [a], Armenian: Տիգրան Գույումճյան, 16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956) was an essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England, publishing the best-selling novel The Green Hat in 1924.
Michael Arlen was a British author whose novels and short stories epitomized the brittle gaiety and underlying cynicism and disillusionment of fashionable post-World War I London society. The son of an Armenian merchant, Arlen was brought up in England, to which his father had escaped to avoid.
Michael John Arlen (born December 9, 1930, London, England) [1] is an American writer, primarily of non-fiction and personal history, as well as a longtime staff writer and television critic for The New Yorker.
Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance "The Gentleman from America ...
The Green Hat is a 1924 sentimental novel about the bright young things of London by Michael Arlen. The protagonist of the novel, Iris Storm, is a femme fatale with a Hispano-Suiza automobile who is involved in romantic affairs in Bohemian London in the post- World War One era.
In November 1933 Virginia Woolf had her one and only encounter with the popular novelist Michael Arlen. Mary Hutchinson, a mutual friend, had organized a dinner party with the mischievous intent of bringing these two literary lions together.
Michael J. Arlen is an Anglo-Armenian writer and former television critic of the The New Yorker. The son of the prominent Anglo-Armenian writer, Michael Arlen. He is the author of Exiles and the critically acclaimed Passage to Ararat, both of which are autobiographical narratives of Arlen's Armenian ancestry.
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