Compton Mackenzie was born in 1887 in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in 1966. His father was a linen merchant and his mother a housewife. At the age of seventeen Compton moved to London to become a journalist. In 1916 he joined Britain's Royal Flying Corps as a military observer and was wounded twice, once severely
After the war he returned to journalism. In 1920 Compton published his first novel, The Green Hat. He earned a living as a journalist and writer until 1933, when he took an editorial job with the Gazette Publishing Company in New York City, where he stayed until 1947.
One of his best-known works is the novel "The Comedians" (1928). He then settled into writing plays and screenplays for Hollywood studios.
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.Compton Mackenzie
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.Compton Mackenzie
