Gerald Brenan (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Authors or writers, Literature, World War I, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: Spain, England
Gerald Brenan was an English writer, whose books on Spain—THE SPANISH LABYRINTH: AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, THE LITERATURE OF THE SPANISH PEOPLE: FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY, and SOUTH FROM GRANADA—still enjoy high repute, as do his two autobiographical volumes, A LIFE OF ONE’S OWN: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH and PERSONAL RECORD: 1920-1972, and his ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS: HIS LIFE AND POETRY.
Born in Malta to Hugh and Helen Brenan, Brenan spent much of his childhood being shuffled around, first to Ireland and then to his...
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