Background information on the poet of 'Reported Missing'

Anna Gordon Keown (1899 - 1957) was an English author and poet.

She married writer and physician Dr Philip Gosse (1879-1959), son of the esteemed Edmund Gosse. Her husband presented a large collection of literature to the University of Leeds in her memory when she died. This is known as the Keown Collection.

She had many pieces of work in the collection, one of the most famous is her book The Cat who saw God published in 1932, a comic drama about a cat who is possessed by the Roman Emperor Nero who decides to settle down with an old English spinster. In November the 14th,1932, 'TIME' listed it as one of their "Books of the Week", noting it as "amusing in the English manner."

She wrote 'Reported Missing' during her youth in word war one.