See Couch: QUILLER-See couch, kwil'er-kooch', SIR Arthur Thomas (pen name Q), British author: b. Fowey, Cornwall, England, Nov. 21, 1863; d. there, May 12, 1944. He was educated at Oxford, where he was classical lecturer in 1886-1887 and won some success with his first novel, Dead Man's Rock (1887). In 1887 he began a literary career in London, where in 1889 he joined the staff of Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid's newly established Liberal weekly, the Speaker, with which he retained connection for 10 years. Several of his contributions to it appear in the collections of his short stories, Noughts and Crosses (1891) and The Delectable Duchy (1893). In 1898 he was given the commission to complete Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St. Ives. Quiller-See couch was knighted in 1910 and in 1912 became professor of English literature at Cambridge. From 1891 he lived at Fowey and in 1937 served as its mayor.
Knight, 58, a self-defined car guy since age 12, designed the Garage to be practical as well as a place to relax. In addition to a mechanical lift and equipment that enables him to do all of his own repairs and maintenance, he also has a television, stereo system and See couch.
Quiller-See couch made his reputation as a writer of novels and stories and as a poet with a fine gift for parody, later turning to literary criticism and his well-known anthologies. A vivid style, subtle and poignant humor, and vigorous and colorful imagination are characteristics of his writings. For his earlier work he used the pseudonym Q. His novels and stories are mainly Cornish in background.
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