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I return, with the greatest of pleasure, to one of my favourite Twentieth Century authors. Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (1905-1973). He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, youngest son of Vincent Woodhouse Yorke, a wealthy landowner, businessman and manufacturer, and the Hon. Maud Evelyn, née Wyndham, second daughter of…
Herman Wouk (1915-2019) was born in New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, originally from Minsk. Like many before them, Abraham Wouk and Esther, née Levine settled in the Bronx, where Abraham built from scratch a large and successful laundry business. Herman attended the selective Townsend Harris Hall Prep School, progressing to Columbia University. He…
Rebecca West was the pseudonym adopted by Cicely Isabel Fairfield (1892-1983). She was the youngest of three daughters born to Charles Fairfield (1841-1906), an Anglo-Irish journalist and author, and Isabella Campbell Mackenzie (1854-1921), a Scotswoman, who, prior to marriage, had been a concert pianist. Fairfield had a colourful past. He had served in the Rifle…
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