"William Charles Franklyn Plomer" Order of the British Empire/CBE (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom, but described himself as an "Anglo-African-Asian".

He became famous in the Union of South Africa with his first novel, Turbott Wolfe, which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-founder of the short-lived literary magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell (Poet)/Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South Africa.

He spent the period from October 1926 to March 1929 in Japan, where he was friendly with Sherard Vines. There, according to biographers, he was in a same-sex relationship with a Japanese man. He was never openly gay during his lifetime; at most he alluded to the subject.

He then moved to England, and through his friendship with his publisher Virginia Woolf, entered the London literary circles. He became a literary editor, for Faber and Faber, and was a Publisher's reader/reader and literary adviser to Jonathan Cape, where he edited a number of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Fleming dedicated Goldfinger (novel)/Goldfinger to Plomer.

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When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.An abstemious man would reel at her look,As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,And third-rate conversation without one single pause:Just like a young coupleBetween the wars.

On a sofa upholstered in panther skinMona did researches in original sin.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.