Happen to have just finished a biography of John Buchan (author of "The Thirty-nine Steps" among many others, as well as being Governor General of Canada 1935-4

Happen to have just finished a biography of John Buchan (author of "The Thirty-nine Steps" among many others, as well as being Governor General of Canada 1935-40). In the first world war he was high up in the Propaganda Bureau - which was considered quite successful, including by the Germans. He also wrote some of his fiction with a view to influencing public opinion.