Merton Hodge


Merton Emerton Hodge was a playwright, actor and medical practitioner.
Born in Taruheru, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, he studied at Kings College in Auckland, Otago Medical School in 1925, graduated in 1928, completed post-graduate studies at Edinburgh University.
As well as continuing his medical studies Hodge pursued his lifelong interest in theatre and continued to write plays throughout his working medical life.

Plays

Hodge is best known for The Wind and the Rain, which was performed 1000 times in London's West End, six months on New York's Broadway, toured the world and was translated into nine languages.
Plays produced in London:
His suicide by drowning came in Dunedin in 1958.

Publications

The plays The Wind and the rain, Grief goes over, Men in white, The Island, Story of an African farm and a novelised version of The Wind and the rain, 1936.