biography
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Linklater, Eric (Robert Russell)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1974)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Dounby, Orkney Is, NE Scotland, UK. He studied medicine and English at Aberdeen, served in World War 1, then became a journalist in Mumbai (1925–7), and an English lecturer at Aberdeen. While in the USA (1928–30) he wrote Poet's Pub (1929), the first of a series of satirical novels which include Juan in America (1931) and Private Angelo (1946). Later books include A Year of Space (1953) and Fanfare for a Tin Hat (1970), which are autobiographical. |
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