Alan Rook edited the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry, he was one of the Cairo poets. After the war he became a wine-trader.

Studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. Saw action at Dunkirk, later invalided out of army. One of the Cairo poets. Soldiers, This Solitude (1942), These are my Comrades (1943) and We Who are Fortunate (1945).