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Mikes, George (1912–1987)| Hungarian-born English writer. The best known of his many humorous books are the shrewdly comic descriptions of national types and foibles, such as How to be an Alien (1946), How to Scrape Skies (1948), Über Alles (1953), Switzerland for Beginners (1962), and Land of the Rising Yen (1970). |
| Other books are Shakespeare and Myself (1952), How to be Inimitable (1960), How to be Affluent (1966), and The Spy who Died of Boredom (1973). |
| Mikes was born in Siklós, Hungary, and educated at Budapest University. He was the London correspondent of various Budapest newspapers 1938–41, worked for the Hungarian service of the BBC during World War II, and remained in Britain afterwards. |
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