Several of his of heroes have a bicultural background – as theĮcuadorian-English Claudio Howard-Wolferstan of Fellow Passenger (1955), the Argentinian-born English botanist of Dance of the Dwarfs (1968), and Adrian Gurney of Red Anger Novels, which often take the reader to different parts of the world. Household's wandering years gave him valuable material for his Much of the was he spent in the Middle East. To assist in blowing up the oil fields if threatened by the GermanĪrmy.
He led a unit in Greece, and in Romania, he was
Salesman for John Kidd, a manufacturer of printing ink, in Europe, the During this period he learned to speak and writeĪfter moving to the United States in 1929, Household wrote forĬhildren's encyclopedias and composed children's radio plays forĬolumbia Broadcasting System. Marketing manager for Elders and Fyffes, banana vendors for the Unitedįruit Company. In 1926 Household went to Spain, where he worked as a He worked for four years as an assistant confidential secretary forīank of Romania. In commerce abroad, though he had dreamed of being a poet. Between the years 19, Household was engaged
Household was educated at Clifton College,īristol (1914-1919) and Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving his B.A. Household, a lawyer, who became secretary ofĮducation for Gloucester. Geoffrey Household was born in Bristol, the son of Beatrice (Norton) " The ethics of revenge? The same as the ethics of war, old boy! Unless you are a conscientious objector, you cannot condemn me." (from Rogue Male, 1939) Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller The Manchurian Candidate (1959), Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal (1971), in which a ruthless hit man plans to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle of France, and Ken Follett's novel Eye of the Needle (1978), a story about the tracing of a German agent in the wartime England. The book was filmed byįritz Lang in 1941 as Man Hunt. Scene in which an English sportsman looks at his target, an unnamedĮuropean dictator, through the rifle sight. ItĪppeared just before the outbreak of World War II, and started with a (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted. Which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. zip of the website is also available.īritish author of thrillers, who published some thirty-seven books All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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