Ford Madox Ford

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Ford Madox Ford is best known for two fictional masterpieces: The Good Soldier and the Great War tetralogy, Parade's End. Indeed, it was reading the former that first persuaded Alan Judd to write this superb biography. century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford.' Even if that is debatable there is no denying his importance in the literary firmament of the first thirty years of the twentieth-century. He founded the English Review which can claim to have discovered D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. In the 1920s he founded the Transatlantic Review which published work by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Gertrude Stein and Jean Rhys. Alan Judd's biography is a brilliant rehabilitation of a literary figure who has still not been accorded his rightful place. On first publication it received dazzling reviews. never bores. He is shrewd about the novel in general and Ford in particular.' Gore Vidal, Times Literary Supplement immensely readable.' Richard Holmes, The Times imaginatively.' A. S. Byatt, Guardian artistic talent was his permanent responsibility.' Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

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Alan Judd, born in 1946, was a soldier and diplomat before becoming a full-time writer. He has written several novels drawing on his military and diplomatic experience, and in addition to Ford Madox Ford he has written the authorized biography of Mansfield Cumming, founder of MI6, The Quest for C.