# Churchill **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581 "2014-05-29T18:36:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/1 "2014-05-29T18:36:51Z")
Everyone who considers themselves familiar with Winston Churchill (1871-1947), raise your hand. That would be the romance novelist Winston Churchill. The wildly successful [American romance novelist Winston Churchill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_%28novelist%29), so famous in his time that the other one was in his shadow. . . . . Any hands still up? Any minds not a teeny bit blown? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/2 "2014-05-29T19:26:53Z")
I’d heard of him. As the Wiki article noted, he and the later-much-better-known British politico agreed to use different names in their published works. The Brit used “Winston S. Churchill,” as the American lacked a middle name. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/3 "2014-05-29T19:39:54Z")
The spoilers come through on the mouse-over, so no surprises after opening the thread anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/4 "2014-05-29T19:43:54Z")
Churchill mentions him in My Early Life. They exchanged an amusing pair of [letters](http://thewhistlefactory.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/letter-from-winston-spencer-churchill-to-winston-churchill/). ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/5 "2014-05-29T19:52:46Z")
Incidentally a while back I was checking for early books by Churchill on Gutenberg and I was excited to find The Crisis which I thought might be his history of World War 1 ( called the World Crisis) but no it turned out to be a novel by the other Churchill. I was quite amused that the two were still getting mixed up on the 21st century Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/6 "2014-05-29T19:55:39Z")
I’m the guy who wrote that Wikipedia [article](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winston_Churchill_(novelist)&oldid=3717344), so my hand’s up. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/7 "2014-05-29T20:04:42Z")
I often mention him. Haven’t had a chance to read him except in an old [Classics Comic](http://www.amazon.com/Classics-Illustrated-Crisis-No-145-5/dp/B0011VWCS0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401393806&sr=1-1) when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/8 "2014-05-29T20:12:26Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > Churchill mentions him in My Early Life. They exchanged an amusing pair of [letters](http://thewhistlefactory.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/letter-from-winston-spencer-churchill-to-winston-churchill/). Heh, it is great that they both took it with such good form. 🆒 I never heard of this “other Churchill”; now I’m curious to read his stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/9 "2014-05-29T20:34:31Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > The spoilers come through on the mouse-over, so no surprises after opening the thread anyway. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m the guy who wrote that Wikipedia [article](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winston_Churchill_(novelist)&oldid=3717344), so my hand’s up. Fine. See if I post any more amusing finds in this board of cheaters… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/churchill/689581/10 "2014-05-30T14:23:18Z")
I’ve seen his books in the library, but never read one. I have read the short novel that Winston Churchill (the statesman) wrote, [Savrola](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savrola). It wasn’t bad, as I recall.