Charles Langbridge Morgan was a British playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them. Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom, through passionate love seen from within and without, to the conflict of good and evil and the enchanted boundary of death (Sparkenbroke). He was married to Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan. No. 1 on The New York Times Fiction best seller list for 5 weeks, from the issue of April 27, 1936. Wiki link