A.J. Cronin, author of a few of the best-loved books of the mid-twentieth century and the developer of Dr Finlay, has actually been unjustly neglected by literary biographers. In this, the very first full-length life of this distinguished and unjustly ignored author, Alan Davies states the story of Cronin’s Scottish youth as the boy of a Protestant mom and Catholic daddy, his subsequent medical profession and his increase to literary prominence, stressing throughout the significance of holding at arm’s length a number of the apocryphal tales that have actually collected around the memory of the author of Hatter’s Castle, The Castle and Destiny Look Down, much of which are based upon incorrect autobiographical readings of Cronin’s fiction itself.
Including an account of Cronin’s tempestuous relationship with his publisher, Victor Gollancz, and brand-new discoveries about the author’s personal life, Davies’s book paints a clearer picture of both Cronin the author and Cronin the male.
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