Ackerley, J. R.
Ackerley, J. R. ( Joseph Randolph ) ( 1896 – 1967 ),author, and for many years ( 1935 – 59 ) literary editor of the Listener , to which he attracted work from such distinguished contributors as E. M. Forster and Isherwood . Hindoo Holiday ( 1932 ) is based on his experiences as private secretary to an Indian maharaja; My Dog Tulip ( 1956 ) and his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) both describe his intense relationship with his Alsatian dog. My Father and Myself ( 1968 ) is an account of his discovery of his apparently respectable father's extraordinary double life, the other side of which was described by Ackerley 's half-sister Diana Petre in The Secret Garden of Roger Ackerley ( 1975 ); see also My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J. R. Ackerley, ed. F. King ( 1982 ). The Ackerley prize for autobiography was established in 1982 : the first...
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