Brian Moore (novelist)
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Brian Moore (August 25, 1921 – January 11, 1999) was a novelist. He published twenty novels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and also worked as a screenwriter.
Moore was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 where he worked as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette. He became a Canadian citizen, and despite moving again to the United States in 1959, he maintained his Canadian citizenship. Moore spent his summers at his home in Nova Scotia.
His father, a physician, was pro-Axis during World War II, although Moore himself worked for British intelligence at the time.
His first novel, Judith Hearne, remains among his most highly regarded. It was made into a film, with Dame Maggie Smith playing the lonely spinster who is the book/film's title character.
Brian Moore died in 1999 at his home in Malibu, California, aged 77, of pulmonary fibrosis.
More has been the subject of two biographies, Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist (1998) by Denis Sampson and Brian Moore: A Biography (2002) by Patricia Craig.
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[edit] Alleged anti-Catholicism
Moore grew up in a large Roman Catholic family, but rejected that faith early in life. Some of his novels feature staunchly anti-doctrinaire and anti-clerical themes, and he in particular spoke strongly about the effect of the Church on life in Ireland.
[edit] Novels
- Wreath for a Redhead (1951) (U.S. title: Sailor's Leave)
- The Executioners (1951)
- French for Murder (1954) (as Bernard Mara)
- A Bullet for My Lady (1955) (as Bernard Mara)
- Judith Hearne (1955) (reprinted as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne)
- This Gun for Gloria (1957) (as Bernard Mara)
- Intent to Kill (1957) (as Michael Bryan)
- The Feast Of Lupercal (1957) (reprinted as A Moment of Love)
- Murder in Majorca (1957) (as Michael Bryan)
- The Luck of Ginger Coffey (novel)The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
- An Answer From Limbo (1962)
- The Emperor Of Ice-Cream (1965)
- I Am Mary Dunne (1968)
- Fergus (1970)
- The Revolution Script (1971)
- Catholics (1972)
- The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
- The Doctor's Wife (1976)
- The Mangan Inheritance (1979)
- The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (1981)
- Cold Heaven (1983)
- Black Robe (1985)
- The Colour of Blood (1987)
- Lies of Silence (1990)
- No Other Life (1993)
- The Statement (1996)
- The Magician's Wife (1998)
[edit] External links
- Obituary from the BBC
- Review of his work from Channel 4
- 1990 interview with Briane Moore by Don Swaim
