Early Days:

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English Painter and author. He was a co-founder of Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticist, Blast. His novels include his pre-World War 1-era novel Tarr, and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising of The Childermass, Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta, set in the afterworld. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trail of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, Blasting and Bombardiering and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career up-to-date.