Rex Warner

Reginald \"Rex\" Ernest Warner (1905-1986) was an English classicist, novelist, poet, and translator, best known for his dystopian novel The Aerodrome (1941) and historical fiction like Imperial Caesar (1960), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Born in Birmingham and educated at Oxford, he taught classics, directed the British Institute in Athens, and held professorships in the US.