Life
1894-1987; b. Belfast; travel writer and author of celebrated works on
Spain; his books describe Yegen, Carrington, Malaga and Churriana rather
than Ireland and hold photos of himself with Bertrand Russell, Hemingway,
and others; but concerns long association with Cambridge University Press.
KUN
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Works
The Literature of the Spanish People from Roman Times to the Present
Day (2nd Ed. Cambridge UP 1953); Personal Record 1920-1974 (London:
Jonathan Cape 1974), 381pp.; South from Granada (1957); The
Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of
the Civil War (1943; 2nd edn. Cambridge UP 1950; 1990) [0521 04314
X]; The Face of Spain (London: Turnstile Press 1950), and Do. [rep.
edn.] (London: Penguin; Hamish Hamilton 1965), 269pp; St John of the
Cross: His Life and Poetry, with trans. of his poetry by Lynda Nicholson
(Cambridge UP 1973), xii, 233pp., 4, ill. facs.
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