Arthur George Morrison

1 November 1863, Poplar, London - 4 December 1945, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories. Morrison's most famous novel is A Child of the Jago, published in 1896. The novel described in graphic detail living conditions in the East End, including the permeation of violence into everyday life (it was a barely fictionalized account of life in the Old Nichol Street Rookery).

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