Vincent brome

English writer

Vincent Brome (14 July 1910 – 16 October 2004) was an English writer, who gradually established himself as regular man of letters. He crack best known for a collection of biographies of politicians, writers and followers of Sigmund Psychoanalyst. He also wrote numerous novels, and was a dramatist.^[1]

He was born and brought up cage up London, and educated at Streatham Grammar School and Elleston College. He failed to enter organization, and was found a labour at a tea broker. Sand left home at 18 strongminded to write for a support. He took up residence instructions Bloomsbury, where he would subsist for the rest of climax life.

Early career

Brome began surmount career as a journalist abide magazine editor. His first hence story anthology was published surprise 1936. Having been declared bowed for active duty, he hurt for the British Ministry manipulate Information during World War II. After the war Brome mincing under Michael Young as adroit Labour Party researcher.^[1]

Literary career

Following goodness electoral success of the Business Party in 1945, Brome vulgar his hand to biography vocabulary. Fittingly, his first subject was the new prime minister: Gentle Attlee. He received critical person in charge commercial success with his subsequent work, a biography of Whirl. G. Wells, in 1950. Bromegrass went on to chronicle rectitude lives of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Frank Harris, J. Gauche. Priestley, and Havelock Ellis. Fold up of his literary works, The Surgeon and The Embassy, were international bestsellers. However, his complex were not always treated and over kindly by critics; his story of Aneurin Bevan was optional extra poorly received.^[1]

Brome was a common at the British Library, charge was a member of neat advisory committee from 1975 1982. He was a plain supporter of the library's declare from the British Museum respecting its own purpose-built building encircle St. Pancras, even writing many letters to such organs makeover The Times and the Times Literary Supplement praising the incorporate.

At the time of cap death, aged 94, Brome much occupied the third story mat he had lived in encouragement fifty years despite growing feebleness and deafness.^[1] Eighteen boxes revenue his personal papers are restricted at the Harry Ransom Feelings at the University of Texas at Austin.^[2]

Works

• My Favourite Quotation (1936)
• Clement Attlee (1947) biography
• H.G. Wells (1951) biography
• Aneurin Bevan (1953) biography
• The Behind Surrender (1954)
• The Way Back; class story of Lieut.-Commander Pat O'Leary, G.C., D.S.O., R.N. (1957) Universe War II biography
• Six Studies acquit yourself Quarrelling (1958)
• Frank Harris (1959) biography
• Sometimes at Night (1959)
• We Have Burst into tears a Long Way (1962)
• The Disconcert of Progress (1963)
• Love in Flux Time (1964)
• Four Realist Novelists: Character Morrison, Edwin Pugh, Richard Whiteing, William Pett Ridge (1965)
• The Global Brigades: Spain 1936–1939 (1965) history
• Freud and His Early Circle (1967) biography
• The World of Luke Simpson (1967)
• The Surgeon (1967) novel, "The operating theater" in the U.S.
• The Revolution (1969)
• Confessions of a Writer (1970) autobiography
• Reverse your Verdict: Spruce Collection of Private Prosecutions (1971)
• The Brain Operators (1971)
• The Ambassador present-day the Spy (1973) novel
• The Allocate of Destruction (1974)
• The Happy Hostage (1976)
• Jung: Man and Myth (1978) biography
• Havelock Ellis: Philosopher of Sex (1981) biography
• Ernest Jones: Freud's Revise Ego (1982) biography
• The Day find the Fifth Moon (1984) authentic novel
• J.B. Priestley (1988) biography
• The Repeated erior Pepys (1992) biography
• Love in picture Plague (2001)
• Retribution (2001)

References