Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania. He was a Balliol college graduate and cousin of Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows. He also wrote (1896) a prequel entitled The Heart of Princess Osra, a collection of short stories set about 150 years before Zenda. His stories of Zenda won much critical praise from many including Robert Louis Stevenson, who was a source of inspiation. "Since its publication in 1883, Treasure Island has provided an enduring literary model for such eminent writers as Anthony Hope, Graham Greene, and Jorge Luis Borges."
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