Stephen Southwold (1887–1964) attended St. Mark's College, Chelsea (1905–07) and worked as a schoolmaster. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1914 to 1919, then returned to teaching. He became a prolific British writer. Born Stephen Henry Critten, he used a number of pseudonyms, eventually changing his name to one of them, Stephen Southwold. He most often wrote as Neil Bell and also wrote as Miles, Stephen Green, S. H. Lambert, and Paul Martens. He was born in Southwold, Suffolk. His change of name was apparently a reaction against his father. Initially writing a number of science fiction books, he later concentrated on conventional novels. He also wrote a large number of short stories, many of them under the Southwold name being for children. Bell also wrote several science fiction novels, including The Seventh Bowl (about immortality), The Gas War Of 1940 (about a future war), and the end of the world story The Lord of Life. Who Walk in Fear is a collection of horror stories. Works The Common Day (1915) poetry In Between Stories (1923) as Stephen Southwold Listen Children: Stories for Spare Moments (1926) as Stephen Southwold Once Upon a Time Stories (1927) as Stephen Southwold Ten-Minute Tales (1927) as Stephen Southwold The Children's Play Hour Book (1927) editor, and sequels Listen Again Children! (1928) as Stephen Southwold Happy Families (1929) as Stephen Southwold Man's Great Adventure (1929) as Stephen Southwold The Seventh Bowl (1930) as Miles, then Neil Bell True Tales of an Old Shellback (1930) as Stephen Southwold Precious Porcelain (1931) as Neil Bell Valiant Clay (1931) also as The Gas War of 1940, as Miles, then Neil Bell Life and Andrew Otway (1931) as Neil Bell The Disturbing Affair of Noel Blake (1932) as Neil Bell The Marriage Of Simon Harper (1932) as Neil Bell The Lord of Life (1933) novel, as Neil Bell Bredon And Sons (1933) as Neil Bell Fiddlededee: A Medley of Stories (1933) as Stephen Southwold Death Rocks the Cradle: A Strange Tale (1933) as Paul Martens, then as Neil Bell The Truth About My Father (1934) as Paul Martens, then as Neil Bell Winding Road (1934) as Neil Bell The Days Dividing (1935) as Neil Bell The Son of Richard Carden (1935) as Neil Bell Mixed Pickles (1935) stories, as Neil Bell Animal Stories (1935) as Stephen Southwold More Animal Stories (1935) as Stephen Southwold Forty More