Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better kwn as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 - 8 July 1933), was an English velist and playwright.[1] He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure vels but he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, mir classics of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre kwn as Ruritanian romance. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most tably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name.