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The Authors. (For a biographical sketch of Charles John Huffam Dickens, see TIME, Mar. 12.) Critics have cried blasphemy at Poet Robert von Ranke Graves before. His Goodbye To All That, considered one of the best books about the World War, drew volleys of outraged British criticism by its outspokenness. During the War, in which he served as captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, Graves was several times wounded, once reported dead. He is big-boned, rangy, with a nose broken from playing rugby. For the last five years he has lived in Deya, a mountain village in Mallorca, with Poet Laura Riding, with whom he has collaborated on several books (A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, A Survey of Modernist Poetry, No Decency Left). A painstaking worker, he rewrites everything again & again. In his 38 years he has written some 30 books. Some of them: Collected Poems, Lawrence and the Arabs, But It Still Goes On (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931), I. Claudius.