Jones, Mervyn, 1922-2010
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Name (Latin)
Jones, Mervyn, 1922-2010
Name (Arabic)
چونس، مرڤين
Other forms of name
جونس، مرفين
جونس، ميرفين
Date of birth
1922
Date of death
2010
Field of activity
literature
Occupation
novelists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Foot, M. Guilty men, 1957.
- Phone call to pub., 5/20/91(the novelist is also the co-author of: Defeating pain, c1991)
- Guardian WWW site, Feb. 26, 2010(Mervyn Jones; b. Feb. 27, 1922, London; d. Feb. 23, 2010; journalist, novelist, and biographer of Michael Foot; son of Ernest Jones)
Wikipedia description:
Mervyn Jones (27 February 1922 – 23 February 2010) was a British novelist, journalist and biographer, the son of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones. Mervyn Jones wrote 29 novels (five unpublished), including John and Mary (1966), the basis for the 1969 film, and Holding On (1973), which was adapted for television in 1977. Jones also wrote non-fiction, reportage and biography, including a fictional biography of Joseph Stalin in 1970 and a biography of his friend Michael Foot, the former Labour Party leader, in 1994. A former Communist, Jones wrote for the Daily Worker, and later the New Reasoner and Tribune; he was later assistant editor at the New Statesman. He died in 2010 at age 87.
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