Hichens, Robert Smythe (1864–1950)

English novelist. His first novel, The Green Carnation 1894, was a satire on the mannerisms of Oscar Wilde. The Garden of Allah 1904 was even more successful and was dramatized. Other publications include The Call of the Blood 1906, The Way of Ambition 1913, The First Lady Brendon 1931, The Million 1940, and Too Much Love of Living 1948.

Hichens was born in Speldhurst, Kent, and educated at Clifton College and at the London School of Journalism.