biography
| name: |
Monsarrat, Nicholas (John Turney)
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pronunciation:
[monsarat]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–79)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, abandoned law for literature, and wrote three novels, and a play, The Visitors, which reached the London stage. During World War 2 he served in the navy, and out of his experiences emerged his best-selling novel, The Cruel Sea (1951, filmed 1953). The Story of Esther Costello (1953) repeated that success, followed by The Tribe That Lost Its Head (1956) and The Pillow Fight (1965). He settled in Ottawa, Canada, as director of the UK Information Office (1953–6), after holding a similar post in South Africa. He wrote a two-volume autobiography Life is a Four-Letter Word (1966, 1970). |
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