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Ford Madox Ford

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Original name:
Ford Hermann Hueffer
Also called:
Ford Madox Hueffer
Born:
Dec. 17, 1873, Merton, Surrey, Eng.
Died:
June 26, 1939, Deauville, Fr. (aged 65)

Ford Madox Ford (born Dec. 17, 1873, Merton, Surrey, Eng.—died June 26, 1939, Deauville, Fr.) was an English novelist, editor, and critic, an international influence in early 20th-century literature. The son of a German music critic, Francis Hueffer, and a grandson of Ford Madox Brown, one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Ford grew up in a cultured, artistic environment. At 18 he wrote his first novel, The Shifting of Fire (1892). His acquaintance with Joseph Conrad in 1897 led to their collaboration in The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). In 1908 he founded the English Review, publishing pieces by the foremost ...(100 of 347 words)

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