The brother-in-law  of  Gretchen Osgood Warren works included the influential novel "Boy in Darkness and Other Stories". The writer of Titus Alone did not write it.
 He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books. 
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870  24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was a British writer, whose works included the influential novel "The Riddle of the Sands", and a Fenian revolutionary who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht "Asgard". 
Titus Alone is a novel written by Mervyn Peake and first published in 1959. 
 The daughter of Dr. Hamilton Osgood and Margaret Cushing Osgood of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, her younger sister was Mary Alden Childers, the wife of writer and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers. 
