David Garnett was born in Brighton, England, in 1892. He was part of the so-called Bloomsbury Group because of his romantic relationship with the painter Duncan Grant, with whom he would work on a farm as a conscientious objector (both were pacifists) during the First World War. Later he ran a bookstore in London's Soho. In 1922, with The Lady Who Transformed into Fox (Peripheral, 2014), he achieved great popularity and won the James Tait Black Memorial and Hawthornden Awards. A year later he would marry Rachel Alice Marshall, who had illustrated with his woodcuts The Lady ... Respected editor, and author of a very interesting work, gave birth to other novels, such as A Man in the Zoo (1924), The Sailor's Return (1925), Formas del amor (1955; Periférica, 2010), A Net for Venus (1959) or The Sons of the Falcon (1972), and had admirers as different as Virginia Woolf, who was its editor at Hogarth Press, Agatha Christie or Graham Greene. Surprisingly, Garnett would remarry at the age of fifty with a daughter of Grant himself and Vanessa Bell: Angelica, who had been born in 1918 and to whom she was twenty-six. After separating from it, of whom he had been fascinated since she was born, as he always said (and so he would tell Lytton Strachey in writing), he settled in Montcuq, France, where he would die in 1981.