biography
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Brooke, (Bernard) Jocelyn
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908–66)
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| biography:
| Writer, poet, and amateur botanist, born in Kent, SE England, UK. He tried various occupations before joining the family wine firm. During World War 2 he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and re-enlisted after the war; but following the critical success of The Military Orchid (1948) he bought himself out and thereafter devoted himself to writing. He followed this with the second and third parts of the autobiographical trilogy (known subsequently as The Orchid Trilogy), A Mine of Serpents (1949) and The Goose Cathedral (1950). |
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