Archibald Cronin (1896-1981)

Archibald Joseph Cronin was born in a poor family in a small town in Scotland. After he finished school, he studied medicine and for some time worked as a doctor. In 1930 he was very ill and had to stop working as a doctor. He began to write books.

Cronin wrote many good novels and some short stories in which he described the world and the life of ordinary people. “Two Gentlemen of Verona” is one of his short stories. Cronin’s story gets its name from a play by Shakespeare. The story describes two boys who live in Verona. They work very hard to help their sister who is ill.