The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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