![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three novels- Lies of Silence, The Colour of Blood, and The Magician’s Wife-were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and The Great Victorian Collection won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.Īfter adapting The Luck of Ginger Coffey for film in 1964, Moore moved to California to work on the script for Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955, now available as an NYRB Classic), said to have been rejected by a dozen publishers, was the first book Moore published under his own name, and it was followed by nineteen subsequent novels written in a broad range of modes and styles, from the realistic to the historical to the quasi-fantastical, including The Luck of Ginger Coffey, An Answer from Limbo, The Emperor of Ice Cream, I Am Mary Dunne, Catholics, Black Robe, and The Statement. ![]() Moore left Ireland during World War II and in 1948 moved to Canada, where he worked for the Montreal Gazette, married his first wife, and began to write potboilers under various pen names, as he would continue to do throughout the 1950s. His father was a surgeon and lecturer, and his mother had been a nurse. Brian Moore (1921–1999) was born into a large, devoutly Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ![]()
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