Morrison, Arthur (1863–1945)

English novelist and writer on art. His realistic novels on poverty in the city, Tales of Mean Streets 1894 and A Child of the Jago 1896, are comparable to George Gissing's work of the same period. Other novels include The Dorrington Deed-box 1897, The Hole in the Wall 1902, Green Eye of Goona 1904, Green Ginger 1909, Fiddle o' Dreams 1933, and a series of detective stories centred on the fictional character Martin Hewitt, investigator. He also wrote The Painters of Japan 1911 and other books on oriental art.

He collaborated in the plays That Brute Simmons 1904, The Dumb Cake 1907, and A Stroke of Business 1907.